Oil and gas have been doing ok DESPITE the EPA thugs and Obama... It’s shale extraction technology which is coping with these evil policies... but that will be the next marxist stop: destroy all technological incentive in the US that cope.
No good deed will be unpunished because bad deeds of welfare, decadence, corruption, free amnesties this and that cannot be punished.
There was a big scare-article in the paper this weekend about the EVIL MINING of sand. Yes, sand.
Sand is necessary to fracking. So, the enviro-commies are trying to make SAND evil.
It’s a steep challenge, but they’re up for it!