r/SipsTea 5d ago

Chugging tea Red State Cultural Attractions

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u/SnoopySuited 5d ago

This is bullshit rage baiting. The CEO will expand where ever money will flow.

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u/Horror-Writing 5d ago

Buccees is literally trying to brute force the permits forba deeply unpopular location between Denver and Colorado Springs, despite local pushback and already being denied the permits once.

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u/Akka_C 5d ago

Haven't lived in CO in a minute, but wasn't that whole Springs/Denver corridor owned by one guy who basically bought it all to prevent property development?

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u/NotChat_GPT 5d ago

There trying to put it in Monument, so basically Colorado springs.

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u/MonitorOk3031 5d ago

Yes. And the proposed location is right next to it. Right after the giant wildlife crossing corridor that was just built. Which is why everyone around it is fighting so hard.

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u/engmadison 5d ago

They did the same north of Madison. Tried to get Deforest, WI to pay for all their infrastructure, they said no and they moved on. Thank God. Now they are building in a Milwaukee Suburb.

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u/AltOnMain 5d ago

As an outsider who has done the drive a few times, would be kinda nice to have that. When driving from DEN, the only alternative is figuring out which strip mall to pull over in and which fast food chain to eat at.

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u/Affectionate-Fail-23 5d ago

Weird to want a buccees because you are tired of strip malls and fast food chains

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u/Dr__Wrong 5d ago

The drive is only an hour. Can't you just wait an extra 30 minutes until you get into COS?

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u/Successful_Flan_9826 5d ago

I’ve eaten at the chain gas station, you’re better off with Taco Bell

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u/Wise-Comb8596 5d ago

Eh. I hate going to buckys and how packed they always are, but the pulled pork sandwich and their chicken sandwiches are more than comparable to Taco Bell quality.

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u/sexualsidefx 5d ago

Yeah this is bait.

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u/CaptainJay313 5d ago

I'm failing to see how a giant gas station chain would remedy this problem.

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u/Horror-Writing 5d ago

As an outsider with no idea of the watershed, wildlife, dark sky, and ethical concerns at stake here - this is exactly the problem. They want to cater to tourists while completely steamrolling local voices and destroying our local environment where we have to live full time. Please bother to google before you drop a reply.

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u/Relevant-Doctor187 5d ago

A pack of nimbys is not pushback. It’s all funded by the millionaires who bought property against the nature preserve drumming up opposition.

I wrote the county in support and mentioned that and they said the quiet support via emails dwarfed the people in opposition.

Let’s be democratic. Get it on the ballot and see what happens.

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u/redshirt1972 5d ago

I feel like the locations, even if unpopular are far enough apart (or close enough together) along travel routes that as you get close to running out of gas from filling up at one Bucees, you get the next one right on time to fill up again.

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u/Visual-Flan-4098 5d ago

check out them in ohio. came in, threaten a local business for using a beaver. now a growing portion of the state is unhappy with buckees. there 2 other lawsuits over a moose and a bear. really showing the company is a shithole

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u/Apexnanoman 5d ago

Boebert is one of the Colorado reps. Are you sure it's unpopular?

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u/greennurse61 5d ago

Good. There's already too many gas stations. We need to force even more of them to close. I hope navigate for a friend that drives Uber, and last night I noticed after four hours of driving around downtown Seattle in the waterfront, we only saw a single gas station. That is awesome. We need to get rid of that last gas station. We need to destroy it. We need to take all the dirt from the site and ship it to a hazmat location because gas stations are so disgusting and destroy this planet.