Corbett says gas drilling - on campus - could save colleges
Gov. Corbett has proposed a novel solution to the higher education funding crisis: drilling for dollars. Not a gas tax, mind you but gas rigs, right on campus
Corbett says gas drilling - on campus - could save colleges
Gov. Corbett has proposed a novel solution to the higher education funding crisis: drilling for dollars.
Not a gas tax, mind you but gas rigs, right on campus.
Corbett told the Pennsylvania Association of Councils of Trustees today that schools could address revenue shortfalls by tapping into the riches of the Marcellus Shale beneath their campuses.
Corbett said six campuses in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education sit on the lucrative Marcellus shale natural gas formation, The Erie Times reported.
Corbett has proposed slicing some $550 million or fifty percent of state funding for colleges and universities in his 2011-2012 spending plan.
The governor was speaking at Edinboro University as part of a tour of the northwest to promote his budget proposal.
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Corbett is clueless.— mattym1- Drill rigs and hydrofracturing bombs going off in the quad. That sounds conducive to learning. Brilliant! — don julio
- This guy is a total clown! Does he have an expense account from Chesapeake or do the drilling companies simply deliver brown bags of cash to Corbett's home?— UncleJoe1
Comment removed.- Corbett to public education: Eat *#@$ and die!!!— MrBigDizzle
- What a buffoon. Has anyone started a recall petition yet?— F. Harry Stowe
- He is owned lock stock and barrel by the drillers. To all the Colleges in southern and eastern Pennsylvania, "you should chase leprechauns in order to get their pots of Gold."— poogie
- HAHAHAHAHAHAHA— sla6yer
- He must be joking, or Corbett is seriously an idiot. Is the next recommendation have the college presidents and trustees pass the hat on the street corners?— crboyle1
- Not taxing the gas companies is idiotic -- they even tax them in Texas. Bought and paid for is correct.— Pundit
- Well folks you got what you asked for...a big business stooge !!!— bull****meter
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- He must of had a few drinks before he gave that doozy speech— tdoc
- Tax the frakkers!— Pelti
- This guy is insane.— CoolZanna
