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8 years ago @ Longmont Times-Call - Nederland asks voters ... · 0 replies · +2 points

This is relevant to Longmont because... And readers in Nederland are more likely to subscribe to the Times Call than the Boulder Daily Camera because.... The TC seems to be ever more reliant on filler articles that are irrelevant to Longmont.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Roberta Benson: A carb... · 0 replies · 0 points

That might apply to the fairly limited number of goods that people on a tight budget consider fungible but it certainly doesn't apply to anywhere near all. For example, do you think there is much elasticity in the demand for iPhones against the cost increase of the phone for carbon tax? Also the fact that Whole Foods prospers selling potatoes for 150% of Safeway is further evidence that the change in price of many goods will have no effect. So that takes me back around to the proponents desire to avoid having the tax/fee to appear as a line item in an invoice at home or as a reminder sticker at the gas pump. Having the tax appear on invoices of these two large purchases would also allow the public to more readily compare their tax exposure to their "rebate" and thus make their own conclusions about the neutrality of the program. Taxed at the point of production or import point leaves it to the individual to take it on faith the rebate actually matches their cost exposure. That would be a hard sell indeed.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Roberta Benson: A carb... · 2 replies · -4 points

If you want to change people's behavior, which I took to be the goal, you would better accomplish that by price signals that are clear than just generally raising the cost of all goods, in many cases of widgets by minor amounts. The tax applied at the pump and your your utility bill is going to have far greater impact. Worrying that some widget somewhere wasn't properly taxed is using minor issues to evade the major issue which is the difficulty of convincing consumers that this is a workable notion that they will get a fair credit back from the government to be cash neutral. Unless of course the plan really isn't to return cash dollar for dollar but to instead to re-distribute the collected revenues in some other way. In that case, this plan has much bigger political problems

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Roberta Benson: A carb... · 4 replies · -1 points

Roberta, why isn't the tax proposed for the point of consumption where consumers would most readily get feedback on their choices? My guess to the answer is that the promoters of the tax what to hide the pea as much as possible from voters.

8 years ago @ Longmont Times-Call - Longmont\'s 2016 budge... · 0 replies · +2 points

Six of the positions relate to Nextlight. Is there data that shows a corresponding revenue increase in Nextlight that covers these personnel costs? Or will NextLight need permanent general fund support for ongoing operations? The bond referred to in the article is only for the capital costs of Nextlight.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Macon Cowles: Boulder ... · 1 reply · +20 points

Oddly for me, I have to agree with Mr. Cowles' position that some things are better covered by consistent statewide regulation rather than by ad hoc local rules (particularly those things previously addressed by the Colorado Supreme Court)

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Editorial: High court ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I also remember Parker Rd as two lane and the old green bridge over the spillway, when Cherry Creek State Park was free admittance and waterfowl and upland bird hunting were permitted. One of my first jobs was a laborer during construction of the Colorado Interstate Gas Watkins Compressor Station off of Smith Road east of Gun Club Rd. That was in the sticks then.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Editorial: High court ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I think the rub between us here is that you assume that the wells in the DJ predating the homes were abandoned. They have not/were not when the homes were built. The wells that you see on artificial lift (pump jacks) all throughout the DJ all predate the homes. The gas wells on single well pads you see in among homes (like the one adjacent to the first par three on the Broadlands Course, hole #3 I think) predate those nearby homes and are still on production. I know it is a helpful assumption for you to cast all of those well bores as abandoned and not producing, but it is inaccurate on a vary large scale.

Looking at just Boulder County, which represents the western edge of the DJ and only the portion of the basin to the west of the Boulder/Weld County line, we can see the history of production in even that small slice of the basin. As you move east of the Boulder/Weld county line, such as into Vista Ridge, Anthem, Firestone, Fredrick etc., the productive quality and thus density to the historically producing wells increases. The data below comes from the Colorado Oil and Gas Commission data page. Data prior to 2000 is organized on a lease basis rather than county so it is harder to compile. However, if you did that, you would find that the volumes go back decades, highlighting the continuous nature of oil and gas in the DJ Basin.

County Year Oil Production barrels)Gas Production (MCF)
BOULDER 2000 107,626 1,743,775
BOULDER 2001 100,007 1,735,608
BOULDER 2002 92,563 1,741,078
BOULDER 2003 90,362 1,834,504
BOULDER 2004 109,481 2,102,576
BOULDER 2005 135,441 2,323,457
BOULDER 2006 133,147 2,402,877
BOULDER 2007 167,727 2,923,083
BOULDER 2008 236,630 3,698,335
BOULDER 2009 212,299 3,356,828
BOULDER 2010 239,034 3,185,890
BOULDER 2011 231,842 3,079,207
BOULDER 2012 197,684 2,614,052
BOULDER 2013 190,361 2,747,038
BOULDER 2014 123,466 1,990,340
BOULDER 2015YTD 53,131 828,557

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Elizabeth Black: Littl... · 0 replies · +6 points

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8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Editorial: High court ... · 3 replies · +2 points

Can I assume that you would agree that all wells reporting production at the time of proposed new home construction would meet the criteria to mandate exclusion of new structures? Drive out Highway 52 about a mile past WCR 5 on the left and report back to me on the housing development as you crest the hill. When you get past that, continue on to Colorado Blvd and head north or south through Fred and Fire. The wells that you see have been on continuous production since the 70's at least, long before Fred and Fire.

I confess an unfair advantage over you in this discussion, I was born here and thus know what these areas looked like before homes. But I realize that new comers must necessarily be pro development in order to justify their own home.