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- BeShirtHappy, on 01/09/2009, -11/+59He is an inspiration. Kudos to him!
- serif69, on 01/09/2009, -14/+52Now sell it to the oil companies for millions!
What? We're cheering his thrifty nature right? - wautrey, on 01/09/2009, -7/+44Did no one RTFA? He can't actually PAY for the land. The 45K only covers the DOWN PAYMENT for the 1.7 mill. final price. This is simply a STALL TACTIC. He won't have the land for long.
- treehugger87, on 01/09/2009, -1/+35Christopher was only able to get access to this auction because it was so hastily put together nobody bothered to put a system in place where each bidder was checked to see if they were properly bonded and able to actually purchase the land.
And if environmentalists had as much money as oil companies the world would be a pretty different place. What was Exxon/Mobil's profit 3rd quarter profit last year? Hard to compete with that kind of cash. - limestarch, on 01/09/2009, -3/+29"...until we can restore open, transparent and democratic procedures for determining the fate of valuable public lands." he's saying he's not against using our own resources but rather, and more importantly, restoring an open and public process. We all should be impressed and happy with this guy.
- jh4rms, on 01/09/2009, -9/+32way to go!
- inactive, on 01/09/2009, -4/+24You should've read better.
The point isn't owning the land. - foolfoolz, on 01/09/2009, -3/+23Default on the payments because it actually cost 1.7 million and you only came up with the down payment.
Trying to buy land with less than 3% of the total cost: setting yourself up for failure. - treehugger87, on 01/09/2009, -2/+21Christopher gave a terrific interview on "Democracy Now!" a few weeks ago. Very good listen if you're interested in hearing more
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/22/posing_as_a ... - Brasky, on 01/09/2009, -18/+35I hope he turns it for millions of dollars and opens his own whaling fleet/logging/strip mining/seal clubbing operation...
- angryfirelord, on 01/09/2009, -0/+16Ask for a bailout.
- kev0476, on 01/09/2009, -2/+18I prefer the sight of wind turbines myself. They produce cheap energy and high paying jobs.
- meruru, on 01/09/2009, -0/+14Unless someone drinks his milkshake
- Sonan, on 01/09/2009, -4/+18Woo hoo! I just bought 22,000 acres of land!
Now what? - danconia, on 01/09/2009, -5/+19I always wondered why conservationists and environmentalists never actually just bought up the land themselves. There's a lot of empty land out there that is really cheap and which have solid environmental roles in nature. About damned time! I hope environmentalists/conservationists learn from this.
- ousthouse, on 01/09/2009, -4/+17Computers didn't come about because people stopped using typewriters. Computers came about because people they're better than typewriters.
Ending production of typewriters wouldn't have sped up the development of the PC, it would have slowed it. - Ninh, on 01/09/2009, -6/+17The lawn mowing bill will kill him.
- scoobycarolan, on 01/09/2009, -5/+16Everyone should donate. He just needs to hang on long enough for the Big O to take office. Then we'll all go down there and hug a bunch of owls.
- serif69, on 01/09/2009, -1/+12I'd buy stock in that, but only if they dump their garbage in salmon breeding grounds.
- diptheria, on 01/09/2009, -0/+10danconia, envirnmental groups do this all the time...try doing a little research on the subject.
- russ3, on 01/09/2009, -2/+11Word, 1.7 mil is nothing to oil companies, if they wanted it in the auction, they would have it.
- yaused2bgood, on 01/09/2009, -0/+8It's quite uplifting to see the initiative taken by this young man. Lets all be honest, it's time to start preserving what little resources we have and the time is now. Many powerful leaders of powerful nations have turned a blind-eye to the degradation of our planet while doing nothing more but contributing to its demise. But to see concern and compassion transformed into action by this young man is moving. What happens to a mans intellect as he ages? Where is the so-called, "wisdom"? I hope to see this as just the beginning of better things to come for brighter generations.
- envi99, on 01/09/2009, -13/+21That's great. Students are taking lead ans setting examples everywhere.
http://yellowsandblues.com/postDetail.php?id=321&a ... - dotorg, on 01/09/2009, -1/+8I hope he knows that land rights and mineral rights are not the same thing and if he didn't buy both, the state can still allow drilling on that land.
- glueandglitter, on 01/09/2009, -0/+7Yea, I think you're right about that. The thing is, this land was only up for sale bc the Bush administration pushed it hastily through, at the protest of a lot of environmental groups. The hope is that if he loses the land, the new administration won't put it back up for auction.
- glueandglitter, on 01/09/2009, -0/+6Are you positive? Since it was an auction catering to oil and gas companies, I'd venture to guess that mineral rights were part of the package. What makes you think they aren't?
- phlux, on 01/09/2009, -1/+7WTF - 1.7M / 22K = $77 PER ACRE
A coworker I know bought the last acre parcel in carmel valely for 650,000!!
HOW THE ***** is it that the OIL companies can get land from the BLM for NOTHING!
Ill buy two of these acres with this kid for 150!
GOD I HATE POLITICIANS AND CORRUPTION - chronopublish, on 01/09/2009, -0/+6@LonesomeFighter
About 17% according to this site:
http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/11/09/where-the-oil- ...
Significantly more than 5%, but a lot less than most people think. - musntSurfatWork, on 01/09/2009, -6/+12There will be blood.
- maninblack87, on 01/09/2009, -5/+11Good on this kid.
- CraigStanton, on 01/09/2009, -0/+6FFS read TFA, it's not his or his dad's money, it's donations from the public to protect their own land.
You may be willing to sell off your country for a cheaper drive to the corner, but he's not. There's plenty of oil to go around if you just use it wisely. If we all carpooled the oil we could drive to work twice as many times and we do now. - LonesomeFighter, on 01/09/2009, -0/+6doesn't only like 5% of US oil come from the middle east? i forget, it aint much though
- BlackGaff, on 01/09/2009, -0/+5How would that make him a hypocrite?
He would have to create a secret auction to only allow specific people to drive on the land.
If your weak, unformed argument is that he is a gung-ho environmentalist, and by driving on land (which most likely already has off-road trails) he is destroying nature, then say so. But, from the argument, the man's action was a stance against the corrupt way public land is auctioned to the highest bidder. - rikwakefield, on 01/09/2009, -4/+9like your comment?
- budboomer, on 01/09/2009, -14/+19Wow! What a hero.
- jtibbetts, on 01/09/2009, -2/+7Donate!
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclic ... - majoraluminumm, on 01/09/2009, -3/+8Conservation can happen overnight.
- CraigStanton, on 01/09/2009, -0/+5The exit strategy seem to be allowing the local governmental bodies to actually review what land is up for sale, which land can be drilled on and which can't. The article noted that the sale included land that didn't even belong to the BLM and some of it was of exceptional natural beauty.
Also his lead attorney is doing it pro-bono, so there aren't as many expensive lawyers as you think. If this was happening in NZ I'd be donating, since it's in the US I encourage you and everyone else to help protect your wonderful scenery. National Monument was stunning when I travelled there last year, I wonder how many commenters here have even taken the time to see this place before condemning it to the oil companies. - BlackGaff, on 01/09/2009, -2/+7How is he hindering progress by attending a legal auction and outbidding the oil companies?
How is he weakening America, when the oil companies have countless untapped rig sites? - Joljonski, on 01/09/2009, -2/+7I can tell you from first hand experience that the oil companies (like Shell. etc.)) don't give a crap about the planet ... somebody has to. A kid who thinks of doing something like this could very well be a president of the US one day! He should contact the Nature Conservancy. Good luck!
- LonesomeFighter, on 01/09/2009, -2/+7he won't. then the land goes back up for sale
- SkippyDoorknob, on 01/09/2009, -3/+8Oil pumps are smaller than wind turbines. The only time you see the big oil derricks out there are just during the drilling process.
- omegared, on 01/09/2009, -0/+4what about the propaganda that businesses make? But your a objectivest so what is the point in arguing with you. you probably think the free market is perfect and needs no regulation.
- nickespinosa, on 01/09/2009, -0/+4Delay the selling until Obama takes office. RTFA
- MsLaurel, on 01/11/2009, -0/+4Where is the state of Utah? Where are the millionaire celebrities? This land should be preserved in a trust, for the future generations of Utah.
Yes, the rain-forests are being bought by an activist group. Every day that you go and click on the green button at TheRainforestSite.com --sponsors contribute toward buying rain-forest acreage. It's pretty cool.
We do need something like that in the US, with oil rights and mineral rights included.
The oil companies already have leases in what looks like 2/3 of the West, and they are not using these leases. Likewise, they have leases in Alaska that are 4 times the size of the National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, surrounding the ANWR, and yet they want the ANWR too.
Obama once said something about not giving more drilling leases until the existing leases were used or returned. Furthermore, there is a list of Bush edicts (200 at last count) that are being considered for revocation.
I assume that this nefarious land-grab auction (a vindictive stab in the collective backs of the American people as it demolishes our national treasure) will be one of those things up for revocation. (Keep your drills in your holsters, boys.) - ASfinkterSezWut, on 01/09/2009, -1/+5Seems like a fair grasp of the fundamentals of Capitalism... Wanna save it? Buy it and save it yourself.
Note To Greenpeace: See Rainforest... copy this idea... repeat. - askantik, on 01/09/2009, -4/+8What about the other 80+% of "our" oil that DOESN'T COME FROM AMERICA and poisons native people (really, watch some documentaries and read some articles) about Ecuador or Nigeria or the like? You guys are so short-sighted. You do realize that besides the fact that these resources (coal, oil, etc) are a very finite resource, using it is bad for the environment, bad for the people (hazardous chemicals, toxic sludge spill in Kingsport, Exxon-Valdez spill, anyone?), and the longer we use them, especially the longer we continue to open up new avenues for these resources, the longer it will take us to get off of them. I know, I know. You'll talk about jobs and *****.
Look, if we ***** up the natural world, your kid's kid's kid's kid's kid's won't have any nice places to go, any scenery to admire. Even if we have to endure a little hardship now (and I'm not even convinced that we do, but IF we did) our "hardship" is still nothing compared to what most of the world endures on $2 a day or less.
At any rate, enjoying the beauty of life (a lot of which is the great outdoors, both seeing it and having satisfaction in knowing that we are helping to preserve it) is a really what life is all about. Contrary to American mainstream media/opinion, life is NOT supposed to be all about squeezing the ***** out of every resource (be it human, animal, or mineral resources) until we are so satisfied that everything is cheap and we can buy lots of *****.
I know I might sound like an *****, and I'm not trying to make huge generalizations, but what I'm saying is, would we not endure a slight inconvenience to ensure a great return for the future? Life is not all about here and now and we must also remember that we depend on clean air, clean water, and intact and extremely complex ecosystems 100x more than we THINK we depend on oil or coal or any other *****. Anyhow, just my 2 cents. You can digg me up or down, but either way, I hope you'll respond. - sandyw123, on 01/10/2009, -0/+4Cool
- nickespinosa, on 01/09/2009, -0/+4Again, the point was not to own, but to delay the selling until Obama gets into office.
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