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Fuel for Thought: Laura Capps is Running on Empty

By Andy Caldwell

Oct 26, 2025
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County Supervisor Laura Capps is leading taxpayers and consumers off a financial cliff by way of her effort to eliminate oil and gas operations in our county. The first part of her proposal would consist of forbidding new oil and gas drilling. The second would amortize existing oil operations. Amortization is a process by which the county government wou…

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