Paulville

Paulville, Texas, was an American cooperative organization as well as the site and planned community under its development in the salt flats of north Hudspeth County, intended to consist exclusively of Ron Paul supporters.

[6][7][8] Photos reveal the range of the Guadalupe Mountains 15 miles (24 km) east, and the local area has occasional deer[1] and tumbleweeds.

[9] The mountain area is also noted for elk, coyotes, jack rabbits, desert cottontails, ring-tailed ground squirrels, and gray foxes.

[11] The cooperative was also called "Paulville.org", after its website, which is now inactive,[12] and was established on January 27, 2008, by Ron Paul meetup organizer Jason Ebacher of Farwell, Minnesota.

Planners claimed to metaphorically raise the Paulville town sign[12][dead link‍] and planned to establish septic[3] and electrical systems on an opt-out basis reflective of principles of individualism:[1] citizens would not be required to use the cooperative's water and energy supplies[18] and may choose to live off-grid.

[15] In his conceptual video, Ebacher described the ease of raising sheep and chickens, and the relative merits of energy from solar power, wind, water, and biodiesel fuels.

[5] Jonathan Dawson, an educator based at Findhorn, questions the point of inward-facing micro-communities, but talks about "providing an example" to others: "It's not useful to retreat just for the sake of it.

[9][17] The Guardian expects shareholders to be interested in libertarian views like "the right to wield semi-automatic weapons and the abolition of income tax",[3] and the Economist wonders whether the new town constituted "a framework for utopia, or just a hilarious catastrophe".