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Measure J on the current November ballot will prohibit “enhanced oil production” in San Benito County. In effect it will essentially stop oil production and future oil exploration in San Benito County. The impact will be marginal to most residents – a marginal, albeit very marginal, price increase in gasoline – but significant impact on those that currently own and operate oil production facilities since they will be out of business. However, San Benito County Taxpayers might have to reimburse them for their losses if Measure J does pass. The real intent of Measure J is to ban oil by outlawing the use of hydraulic fracturing or “Fracking” here as well as the rest of California. A win here by the anti-fracking, anti-oil group, is part of their strategy to eliminate petroleum as an energy source. The best way to do that is to make oil so expensive that no one other than the major backers of Measure J can afford to drive from their homes in Silicon Valley to their ranches in South County. To accomplish this, they have to ban fracking. The simple reason is that without fracking, gasoline would be probably double what we are paying today. Measure J states that banning fracking will protect their way of life-which is exactly opposite of the truth. How would residents of San Benito County “protect their way of life” who essentially rely 100% on the automobile for transportation with gasoline at $8.00/gallon?

My name is Derek Barnes. I teach Social Science at San Benito

In regards to the editorial published Tuesday, Jan. 17, I agree

This letter is in response to Marty Richman's letter to the editor of July 20. Marty lists RDA bonds, sewer bonds, a $920,000 loan from the water fund to the general fund and Calpers payments as excessive debt which could destroy the City.

As a Wal-Mart shopper and political supporter, I must say a

I am a person in black on the other side of Fourth and San

I am writing this letter concerning our District Attorney John

You have a lot of nerve comparing the Confederate flag to the