[Pietro]

What's driving this is envy.

The people that aren't directly making money from the gas boom feel they are being cheated, and they want their's damn it.

So what if it kills future drilling.

[Vigilanteman]

That would replace the current "impact fee" assessed on each well - which has generated $630 million, mostly for the towns and counties where drilling occurs . . .

IOW, the hogs who would benefit most would be the densely populated places like Philadelphia which has the most greedy schools and where no drilling happens. The places which would suffer would be cities like Washington, PA or Punxsutawney who actually need the impact fees to build and repair roads, schools and other infrastructure needed to support the growth produced by drilling.