There Might be Blood

or Please Re-Lease Me.....Let Me Go

I've decided to add a new category but I can't decide on the title. Upton or Ray? In what promises to be a developing story, early lessors in the Marcellus that received $5-$10 an acre and the standard 1/8 royalty sure have the hair up on the back of their necks.

Upton Sinclair's There Will Be Blood is certainly appropriate but it might not come to that. Ray Price's famous breakup song, Please Release Me when re-spelled is equally on the mark and for some reason, when I think of WV, I think of Ray Price. We are talkin' real country here so, landmen,....watch your back.

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