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Biden Regime Proposes New Regulations and Taxes on Oil and Gas Industry
Gateway Pundit ^ | Jan. 13, 2024 4:00 pm | By Cristina Laila

Posted on 01/13/2024 2:31:20 PM PST by Red Badger

The Biden Regime is now proposing a new natural gas tax.

Biden’s first order of business was to kill tens of thousands of jobs and cancel the Keystone XL pipeline.

Gas prices shot up immediately after Biden canceled the Keystone Pipeline.

Since then, Biden has continued to wage a war on the ‘fossil fuel’ industry. He has also depleted the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Now Biden is proposing new regulations and taxes on the fossil fuel industry.

“Under President Biden’s leadership, EPA is delivering on a comprehensive strategy to reduce wasteful methane emissions that endanger communities and fuel the climate crisis,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement. “Today’s proposal, when finalized, will support a complementary set of technology standards and historic resources from the Inflation Reduction Act, to incentivize industry innovation and prompt action.”

“We are laser-focused on working collectively with companies, states and communities to ensure that America leads in deploying technologies and innovations that aid in the development of a clean energy economy,” he continued.

Fox News reported:

The Biden administration unveiled a new regulatory proposal Friday that would introduce a new tax on the fossil fuel industry, punishing producers that exceed a certain level of methane emissions.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which spearheaded the proposal, said it will help “tackle wasteful methane emissions” from the oil and gas sector, encouraging facilities with the highest emissions levels to meet or exceed higher levels of performance. The proposed rules would create the so-called Waste Emissions Charge, which begins at $900 per metric ton of wasteful emissions in 2024, and increases to $1,200 for 2025 and $1,500 for 2026 and beyond.


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1 posted on 01/13/2024 2:31:20 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

And this is how you get around the courts wanting to thwart the Biden administration trying to shut down natural gas appliances.


2 posted on 01/13/2024 2:33:26 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: CatOwner

Let’s go Brandon, who clearly is not running the show.


3 posted on 01/13/2024 2:40:47 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Red Badger
They're trying their damndest to revert civilization back to a primitive pre-industrial state for the masses

cave

while those that rule will continue enjoying the best of everything like in the film "Soylant Green".

Looks like the EPA, along with the other alphabet agencies, is crying out for eradication as it's "duties" are, like education, properly in the realms of individual states. Exceptions of intervention only allowed where resources are shared (ex: long rivers).

4 posted on 01/13/2024 3:03:51 PM PST by MikelTackNailer (Dropkick me Jesus through the goal-posts of death should the Demons retain power.)
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To: MikelTackNailer

Yes, the EPA is an agency that desperately needs a budget of $0. If it is too difficult to eliminate the agency, then slash its budget with zeal.


5 posted on 01/13/2024 3:07:16 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Red Badger

Old Joe is intent on killing the golden goose.
One can only conclude he is an enemy of the American system of government.


6 posted on 01/13/2024 3:07:20 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Thanks Nixon.😡


7 posted on 01/13/2024 3:08:14 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: Red Badger

Biden regime masters of misery index incompetence on the march.


8 posted on 01/13/2024 3:09:24 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: Vaduz
It's become absolutely ridiculous, waking to learn almost weekly of this usurping administration's latest attack on some foundation of what made America exceptional and truly great.

And now I see these commercials from the Dem-RINO coalition saying "Trump can't beat Biden so we need Haley who can". WTF?! These evil people not only tear down monuments but are trying to use outright lies to convince the less intelligent that truth isn't what the facts tell them. Arrrgh!!!

9 posted on 01/13/2024 3:22:11 PM PST by MikelTackNailer (Dropkick me Jesus through the goal-posts of death should the Demons retain power.)
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To: MikelTackNailer

Agree pure chaos 100% of the time.


10 posted on 01/13/2024 3:24:39 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: Red Badger

I liked Nixon’s public persona. However, taking the US off the gold standard and creating the EPA were mistakes. I will grant that he is not directly responsible for the actions of his successors. The same could be said of GW Bush and the Patriot Act.

We have to learn that if we crack the door to evil, the Democrats will push their way through. It’s like being in a jet at altitude and cracking the door open a little bit, or in a submarine and cracking an external door open, just a little. Oh yes, let’s allow mail-in ballots because people are concerned about waiting in line and getting the flu.


11 posted on 01/13/2024 3:24:48 PM PST by ChessExpert (Required for informed consent: "We have a new, experimental vaccine.")
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To: Red Badger

I have been inside the EPA a couple of times and am here to tell you that it is full of libtards that hate people. Plan accordingly to be oppressed into poverty.


12 posted on 01/13/2024 3:38:00 PM PST by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: jdt1138

Environmentalism is a religion and they are the Torquemadas of the Spanish Inquisition...........


13 posted on 01/13/2024 3:54:31 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I wasn’t expecting that.


14 posted on 01/13/2024 3:56:20 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChessExpert
Great examples. The Patriot Act is WAY overdue for rescinding now that almost all of it is now abused for domestic spying; which led to the degradation of the agencies now needing elimination or a harsh re-shaping.

Nixon was very good as Presidents go, exceedingly talented at managing and caretaking the public's trust. Faith in other's advice and allowing others to go unsupervised led to him having to step down.

He's villainized over Watergate when his staffers minimized his awareness of it while JFK is still lauded a hero while actively involved in the failed Bay of Pigs fiasco that led to so many unnecessary deaths - and a major geo-national blunder that should have eradicated that Communist threat STILL on our doorstep.

But looking at all of America's traditional enemies have had to resort to reshaping their failed ideologies to some form of capitalism to survive in the modern world I'd say America won - except for these Demoncrat ass-hats striving so hard to snatch failure from the jaws of victory.

15 posted on 01/13/2024 3:58:56 PM PST by MikelTackNailer (When did "The Public's Best Interests" become "Enemies of the State"?)
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To: dfwgator

NO ONE expects that!


16 posted on 01/13/2024 4:01:00 PM PST by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: Red Badger

More regulations. My gosh.


17 posted on 01/13/2024 4:20:15 PM PST by NavyShoe
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To: Red Badger

Barrack’s Fundamental DESTRUCTION!
Thank a Liberal!


18 posted on 01/13/2024 4:21:48 PM PST by gathersnomoss (Clown World)
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To: dfwgator

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!..............


19 posted on 01/13/2024 4:22:48 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: OKSooner; dfwgator
LOL! Some things never get old. Now where did I put that Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?

Holy

Run away! Run away!

20 posted on 01/13/2024 4:28:20 PM PST by MikelTackNailer (Fortunately despite aging I've been spared the ravages of maturity.)
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