68,000 Jobs Lost In Colorado If Fracking Is Banned?

Per the Denver Post this morning, The Leeds School of Business at CU predicted that many good paying jobs would leave Colorado in both the oil industry and supporting businesses if the anti-frackers got their way.
Dems claim to want to keep America working but why are they trying to drive away jobs when they are created?

I didn't get past the title of the thread, Fred. Once a liar, always a liar

OK, don't believe the Denver Post or CU. This isn't Fox News or the Huffington Post.
Instead get our oil and gas from Iraq right?

Are you sure it wasn't 68 billion Fred?

You should have said 68 Trillion Fred..That would have really made everyone think the sky is falling...

Really Fred? still being a tool? The study stated that UP to 68000 jobs MIGHT be lost if Colorado banned ALL hydraulic fracturing which no one has proposed. Instead, ballot initiatives have been proposed that would allow local municipalities the right to enforce zoning regulations against oil and gas producers within their jurisdictions, such as they are able to do against other industrial uses. How many jobs would be lost if that happens? None.

Why are oil and gas producers given a free pass over local zoning regulations which no other industry has, why is hydraulic fracturing exempt from the Clean Water Act, which other industries are not, why do the oil and gas producers get a deduction of ad valorem taxes which no other industry gets which results in a tax break of over $200 million PER YEAR? Why are the tax rates on oil and gas production 1/3 the rate of our neighboring states of Wyoming and New Mexico? Higher tax rates there have certainly no slowed the drilling activity there.

FredHayek wrote: Per the Denver Post this morning, The Leeds School of Business at CU predicted that many good paying jobs would leave Colorado in both the oil industry and supporting businesses if the anti-frackers got their way.
Dems claim to want to keep America working but why are they trying to drive away jobs when they are created?

You're topic headline is totally misleading, actually a lie.

Something the Dog Said wrote: Really Fred? still being a tool? The study stated that UP to 68000 jobs MIGHT be lost if Colorado banned ALL hydraulic fracturing which no one has proposed. Instead, ballot initiatives have been proposed that would allow local municipalities the right to enforce zoning regulations against oil and gas producers within their jurisdictions, such as they are able to do against other industrial uses. How many jobs would be lost if that happens? None.

Why are oil and gas producers given a free pass over local zoning regulations which no other industry has, why is hydraulic fracturing exempt from the Clean Water Act, which other industries are not, why do the oil and gas producers get a deduction of ad valorem taxes which no other industry gets which results in a tax break of over $200 million PER YEAR? Why are the tax rates on oil and gas production 1/3 the rate of our neighboring states of Wyoming and New Mexico? Higher tax rates there have certainly no slowed the drilling activity there.

How do you know if no jobs would be lost if fracking was banned in in certain jurisdictions?
And how do you know no one has proposed shutting down all fracking in Colorado? There are some radical enviromentalists out there.

Reverend Revelant wrote:

FredHayek wrote: Per the Denver Post this morning, The Leeds School of Business at CU predicted that many good paying jobs would leave Colorado in both the oil industry and supporting businesses if the anti-frackers got their way.
Dems claim to want to keep America working but why are they trying to drive away jobs when they are created?

You're topic headline is totally misleading, actually a lie.

You might as well have said a Gazzilion Fred....

Unless he owned a natural gas company....Why would a guy in Jefferson Colorado be for fracking? Unless he was getting filthy rich and could buy him and his next 50 generations all the clean water they needed, why would he come on a message board and tell outright lies in order to sway peoples opinions on this?

Corporate Americas usefull idiot

VL,
Your ignorance of fracking is showing again. Do you really think they drill for natural gas at the same depths as water?