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The Legislature budgeted nearly $8 million to address deferred maintenance at North Dakota state parks, which are seeing record visitation amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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An article “My day without oil,” written by Dennis Johnson, concentrated on plastics made from crude oil. In 1940, Henry Ford manufactured a car whose body was completely made of plastic. The plastic was made from corn oil. Velva North Dakota has a huge oil crushing facility that produces excellent plant based oil that can also be made into high quality plastic. The North Dakota Legacy Fund could make a wise investment for the future in building a facility to make plastic out of that plant based oil.
The facility in Velva also crushes sunflower oil. In 1980, I was a sales agronomist for a hybrid sunflower company out of Davis, California. We sponsored a car dealer from Placerville, Ca to enter a race across America using alternate fuels. He had converted a Jeep Waggoner with a diesel engine to burn sunflower oil. He drove the Jeep burning sunflower oil from California to New York City. At the time I did a radio show “Focus on Flowers” and did a 20 minute interv
State Bill in North Dakota to Use SWF for Paying off Residential Property Taxes
Posted on 02/06/2021
A contingent of North Dakota state legislators are looking at spending the earnings of the North Dakota Legacy Fund toward the elimination of residential property taxes. The bill is House Bill 1446. These advocates believe the money would cycle back through the local North Dakota economy. However, party leadership in both the Democrats and Republicans have dismissed the legislation and have other ideas for the use of funds in the state’s oil tax savings account. House Bill 1446 would use the earnings of the North Dakota Legacy Fund to be used on property tax credits for North Dakota homeowners and then reimburse counties for the lost income. The bill has not yet been scheduled for a committee hearing.