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Still gotta get past the enviro-whakos. All they have to do is OFFER to divide a certain percentage of the oil drilled to black Americans born before the Civil Rights Act. I’d call it “40 Acres and a Mule.” Then sit back and watch.

After a few generations of dryland farming, brutal winters, and finally having a chance to cash in on mineral rights they have retained through thick and thin, the locals here tend to be a little less than sympathetic toward people from outside the area who have decided they know better than we do how to care for our own environment.

The Buffalo Commons people were more or less sent packing back to New Jersey (in the '80s), and other groups have met little sympathy (Go back to LA or San Francisco or New York City and clean that mess up, if you want to be environmentalists: this area remains as it is because we have kept it that way without any 'help'.)

And we deal with the greed and envy from the parts of the State (2/3) without oil, who are losing their stroke in State politics because we are the ones bringing home the bacon.

Most of the mineral rights are in private hands, and neither environmentalists nor the Federal Government have been able to come up with an adequate excuse to shut things down, despite their best efforts.