Wyoming has a wind production tax. That's often seen to be hostile to industry. When I was appointed to the County Commissioners Association wind task force committee, they were paying a property tax. So we looked at how best to tax them and it seemed like the best way was to reinstate the sales tax fee because they were exempted. And then to add on a dollar a megawatt hour of production fee to help the ongoing expenses of supporting these industries.

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