The last hurrah of the silly "Free State" movement.
If the libertarians had picked North Dakota instead of New Hampshire they might all have ended up buying land that they could have flipped over to the oil companies years later.
They'd all be millionaire powerbrokers in a state with a small population.
They would have had a much better chance of getting the state government to move toward their libertarian positions.
Instead they chose a state with plenty of Starbucks sitting next to Massachusetts vomiting up hypocritical liberals who didn't want to be taxed for all the largesse they supported.
Anybody in North Dakota who hasn’t already made his mint with his land is in trouble now as gas hovers around $30, and many wells are shutting down and almost nothing new being drilled.