A parcel of federally owned wilderness was auctioned off by the Bureau of Land Management. The BLM set up the auction in a rush, so the land could be sold before the Obama administration’s appointees come into power and say, you know, that we shouldn’t drill for oil in national parks. Then a student registered as a bidder and pledged $1.8 million on land. He can’t afford it, but now the land he fake-bought can’t be sold again (auctions take a long time to organize?) until February. And by February, friends, much will have changed.
“The auction had been under way for a couple of hours when energy company representatives became suspicious of a man wearing an old red down parka after he won bids on more than 10 parcels numbered consecutively, all around Arches and Canyonlands.”
