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2- San Miguel Basin Forum, Thursday, May 21,2009
Obituaries: Puderbaugh, Romero
Mary Rachel Cooper Puderbaugh Suzanne Redd, of Paradox, their six
1920 - 2009 children, Nathan, Steven. Mathew and
Lifelong Nucla resident, Mary Jonathan, Elizabeth and Rebecca; two
Rachel Cooper Puderbaugh, age 88, sisters, Joyce Lomax and Mina Voss,
passed away at Villa Grande Care . of Montrose.
Center in Grand Junction early Preceding Mary in death were her
Tuesday morning, April 28, 2009. husbali~l, Thomas Phillip, oldest son
Mary was born in Nucla on Samuel Wilber, third son David John,
December 11, 1920, the second child her brothers James Franklin Cooper
of Wiibert James Cooper and Alice and Neddie Ben Cooper.
Myrtle (Fry) Cooper, of Nucla and Mary Rachel will be missed by
Ute. her loving family and friends.-
Mary attended summer school for Callahan Edfast Mortuary han-
four years at Ute before transferring died the death announcement. No ser-
to seventh and eighth grades in Nucla. vice is planned at this time.
She then graduated from Nucla High Jane D. O'hara Romero
School. 1930 - 2009
Mary married Thomas Phillip Jane D. O'hara Romero died May
Puderbaugh, also of Nucla, on January 14, 2009. Services were Wednesday,
14. 1939. in Montrose. They moved May 20, at 11 AM. at the Pentecostal
to the Puderbangh Ranch home on Church in Naturita, with Pastor Dan
Second Park for a number of years and Williams officiating. Burial was at
raised livestock and winged animals, the Norwood Cemetery. Sunset Mesa
Tom was employed in the uranium Funeral Home, of Montrose, handled
mining and drilling business in the the arrangements.
surrounding boondocks. Tom was a She was born on April 3, 1930.
diamond core driller. She was a CNA and loved hunting
Later, they moved to town to and fishing. She loved life and read
her Bible daily.
make it closer to the football games
Survivors include a sister, Edna
for their three boys, Sammy, Tommy
and Edna's eight children; a sister-in-
and David. Mary was an avid football
law Della and her six children; sister-
supporter in every way. in-law Emily and her three children;
Survivors include Mary's middle brother Austin, his wife Rose, and
son, Thomas Puderbaugh, of Grand their daughter; brother Tom, his wife
Junction and Idaho, ex-daughter-in- Nancy, and their five children; 19
law, Rae Borden Puderbangh, their son great-nieces, 22 great-great nieces,
Christopher, of Grand Junction, their 10 great nephews and 9 great-great
daughter, Dr. Marybeth Puderbaugh nephews.
Miller, her husband and daughter, She was preceded in death by her
of Pennsylvania: Sammy's ex-wife, brothers, Bill and Bob.
Remembering Dale Williams
Diana Starks, along
with her daughters Tonee
Lawrence and Sara Luster,
would like to invite Dale's
friends to come to a potluck
picnic and a celebration of
his life on Sunday, May 24,
at the Naturita Town Park.
starting at 12-30 pm.
Bring a dish, beverages,
and your ~torie~ of Dale.
The family looks forward to
this time of memories and
sharing,
Guest Editorial
Economic Strangulation:
The Environmentalist/Democrat War Against Energy
By Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
The "greens" must be thrilled with the neff Obama/Pelosi/Reid (OPR) troika in charge of the federal government.
Three times already, the troika has blocked the development of .domestic oil resources.
During his first week in office, President Obama rescinded his predecessor's executive order permitting drilling on
the continental shelf and in the Green River Formation. Both areas contain abundant oil--especially Green River (under
Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah), which has recoverable shale-oil reserves three times the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia.
Several weeks later, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar unilaterally canceled 77 oil and gas leases in Utah, on the
grounds that (I kid you not) someone might catch a glimpse of temporary drilling equipment from the national park that
sits more than a mile away.
Next, on March 25, the House of Representatives passed the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (S. 22)
which, among many other things, adds two million more acres to the 107 million acres of protected wilderness already
owned by the federal government. (In all, Uncle Sam owns 607 million acres of land.) The main purpose of this law is to
preventthe exploration and extraction of oil and gas frointhese lands, which are estimated to have 300 million barrels of
oil and 8.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas under them.
In addition to increasing American dependence on foreign oil by thwarting such domestic development, the OPR/
green alliance desires the imposition of expensive cap-and-trade rules to discourage utilities from using coal, which cur-
rently provides nearly half of America's electricity. As Obama candidly explained to the San Francisco Chronicle during
his presidential campaign, "If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can [but cap-and-trade] will bankrupt
them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."
Of course, this anti-fossil fuel agenda is nothing new for green Democrats. This group has long resisted drilling in a
tiny sliver of the remote, desolate Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And even the relatively moderate Clinton administra-
tion, after designating natural gas as its environmentally responsible fossil fuel of choice, conferred wilderness designation
on the western lands that contained some of the richest targets for natural-gas exploration.
The super-green Obama administration plans to replace fossil fuels with alternative fuels. The last time we went down
this road, President Carter managed to blow several billion dollars on failed attempts to produce economically viable syn-
thetic fuels (remember "Synfuels?") and foisted the ongoing ethanol boondoggle on us. Corn=based ethanol, even 30 years
later, still requires massive government subsidies, is useless for achieving energy independence. It consumes nearly as
much, and perhaps more, energy to produce it than it yields in our fuel tanks. It is also the least environmentally friendly
fuel we use, increasing emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that cause smog, using up precious water sup-
plies, and requiring the tilling of millions of acres of wildlife habitat.
Ah, but the good news is that the current generation of green leaders will take us to the fabled land of wind and solar
energy. Apart from the daunting economics--it is likely that these energy sources will stilt require government subsidies
several decades hence, as ethanol does today,. Think of the environmental impact of these allegedly superior energy
sources:
Solar energy requires vast territories for solar cells--as many as 46,000 square miles would have to be covered
by solar panels. One logical place for a "solar energy farm" would be the wide-open, sunshine-rich, sparsely populated
Mojave Desert. However, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) already has nixed that possibility in the name of wilderness
protection. As a frustrated Gov. Schwarzenegger lamented, if you can't put solar panels in the Mojave Desert, then where
can you put them?
Wind energy also runs into the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) syndrome. Besides the legitimate environmental
concern about the Way windmills slice up birds and create low-pressure zones that explode the lungs of bats, environmen-
talists have started to block transmission networks that would tie the energy generated by windmills to the power grid.
This reminds me of the congressman who voted for funding of a ship-borne weapon because the weapon is manufactured
in his district, but then voted against funding the construction of the only ships that use that particular weapon in order to
appeal to antiwar voters.
This green agenda is more than absurd, it is sinister. The real goal of greens is not "clean energy" but less energy.
Energy is essential to economic progress, and many greens want to halt and reverse economic progress. Some radical
greens have praised Fidel Castro for de-developing Cuba. A1 Gore wrote in his book "Earth in the Balance" that U.S. policy
should aim for slower economic growth. President Obama's chief science advisor John Holdren's top two environmental
goals are to shrink the human pop~ation and to stow economic growth.
So here we are, in the midst of a severe economic crisis, and the ruling party is pursuing an anti-energy agenda that
would further cripple econonaic activity. They seem oblivious to the fact that poverty is the most lethal environment for
human beings. (Life expectancy in the United States declined during the Great Depression.) What a grim price we will
pay for the green agenda.
Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson ts an adjunct faculty member, economist, and contributing scholar with The Center for
Vision & Values at Grove City College.
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