State out $675K grant but still plans to give out millions more in tax money ( Colorado )

Watchdog ^ | September 19, 2014 | Arthur Kane

[txrefugee]

Liberals love handing out Other People’s Money to cronies. Exhibit A: Obama and Solyndra.

[mountainlion]

Another failed Colorado energy policy.

[immadashell]

Another failed Colorado energy policy.

Any chance the state will stop the fraudulent grants to the others in the pipeline? NAH

[Ben Ficklin]

Liberals? What about Texas?

Rick Perry built 11 of these NG stations along the "Texas Clean Transportation Triangle", which means DFW to ASA to Houston. In 2011.

Boone has put a bunch of stations in.

You need to understand. This article is published by Watchdog.org, which is a front for the Koch Brothers, who are in the gasoline, diesel, and ethanol business, and don't want customers to use natural gas.

[mountainlion]

Koch Brothers, who are in the gasoline, diesel, and ethanol business, and don’t want customers to use natural gas.

Evidently the customers did now want natural gas either. Almost $1M for a gas station is insane.

[Ben Ficklin]

This is a map of CNG facilities. Over the last 3-4 yrs they have begun to install LNG fueling facilities.

[mountainlion]

Evidently there was not enough market between the Denver cluster and Utah cluster of stations to stay in business.

[mountainlion]

Liberals? What about Texas?

I don’t like governments supporting private energy business. I am not a liberal I am a Libertarian and such am conservative and against government interference in business.

[Ben Ficklin]

If you want to be in the CNG business, you need to do sales work to the fleet operators.

[mountainlion]

If you want to be in the CNG business, you need to do sales work to the fleet operators.

Are you saying that the State of Colorado should take over the natural gas operations in Colorado?

[Ben Ficklin]

I don't know what you are talking about when you say the State of Colorado taking over natural gas operations.

I mentioned CNG business, sales work, and fleet operators. I can't figure out how you got from those phrases to the State of Colorado taking over natural gas operations.

[mountainlion]

State out $675K grant but still plans to give out millions more in tax money ( Colorado )

Colorado is paying for natural gas stations.
You say If you want to be in the CNG business, you need to do sales work to the fleet operators.

It looks like the state of Colorado wants to be in the natural gas business and work with fleet operators.

This is a function of Capitalism not Government.

[Ben Ficklin]

It benefits CO, TX , or any state as well as the nation to lower their emissions so there are state and federal subsidies to promote that.

It also benefits the nation to use domestic fuel rather than importing it, so there are subsidies for that

But as an ideologue, you prefer pollution and imported fuel.

[Lurker]

“But as an ideologue”

Perhaps you need to visit the FR homepage for a refresher on what the purpose of this site is.

[Ben Ficklin]

If you read the details the energy office had 15 million from the feds and the air quality board had 15 million and even tho it doesn't identify a source, it is probably federal also.

No doubt others states got their share of this same money. And it was appropriated by Congress.

An ideologist would probably say that the state should turn down the money, let California or Iowa have it. But the realists and pragmatists welcome the federal money, and say send more.

[Lurker]

As I said. You need a refresher course on the purpose of FR.

[GeronL]

by “realist” and “pragmatist” you mean the statists and spendthrifts, right?

[GeronL]

Government should not be funding private business or organizations, period

[GeronL]

Let them spend their own money on these businesses, not taxpayers money