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“Western Democrats are stuck between a rock and a Prius,” writes Jessica Peck Corry. “They want to use booming oil revenues to fund expanded government spending. But saying yes to energy exploration means saying no to the demands of the region’s powerful environmental lobby and a national party agenda increasingly resistant to domestic oil-and-gas development. Since Colo. Gov. Bill Ritter and legislative Democrats swept into office in January, they’ve floated ideas for what to do with the tax revenue brought in by Colorado’s growing oil and gas companies.”
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