[Ditter]

Drilling oil wells on your property is defiantly invasive but you can then go and buy another piece of property if you want to.

[expat_panama]

...oil wells on your property is defiantly invasive but you can then go and buy another piece of property...

We're talking Lubbock area here.   What possible good would it do for the guy to use a bit of the oil earnings and buy another farm only to turn right around and end up with yet another oil fortune.   It's simply one of those no-win situations with no easy solution.