Republicans' new favorite study trashes Biden's climate plans – but who's behind it?--Barf

The Guardi-barf ^ | 9/3/21 | Emily Holden and Cooper McKim

[Eleutheria5]

Wyoming’s US representative, Liz Cheney, envisions a dark future for her home state under Joe Biden.

If the new administration extends its pause on new oil and gas drilling on public land, it would endanger Wyoming’s economy, kill 18,000 jobs and cause the energy state to lose out on critical education, infrastructure and healthcare funding. Biden would be “cutting off a major lifeline that Americans have relied on to survive during this time”, she has said.

But there is a problem with Cheney’s forecast. The numbers she is relying on came from an analysis that is the brainchild of the oil and gas industry.

The Western Energy Alliance – which represents 200 western oil and gas companies – proposed the $114,000 publicly funded analysis to state officials, tried to provide matching dollars for it and stayed involved throughout its development, according to public records obtained by Documented and shared with Floodlight and Wyoming Public Media.

In February 2020, a Wyoming state senator, who is also the president of an oil company, proposed the spending. The Western Energy Alliance sought to help fund the study but was unable because the industry was in serious decline. It did, however, spend $8,000 publicizing the report, as was first reported by Politico.

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[Eleutheria5]

So if the oil and gas industry has anything to do with it, it must be false, no need to examine the merits of the report. Add hominem and stir.

[HYPOCRACY]

“Wyoming’s US representative, Liz Cheney, envisions a dark future for her home state under Joe Biden.”

Then why’d she vote for him?

[Eleutheria5]

Death wish?

[snoringbear]

Liz is practicing damage control. She is the spawn of hard core swamp creatures. Her concern for the Wyoming fossil fuel industry is pure illusion.

[Eleutheria5]

Unemployed pipeline workers tend not to vote for legislators who are ok with them being abruptly put out of a job. And since she’s a Republican, she can’t use the Dems’ cheat machine. That’s for members only.

[9YearLurker]

Until we get her voted out, it would be good if she could actually focus on something useful for a bit.

[Wuli]

The problem with the criticism is it pretends that self-interest is not involved in the “green” agenda, and yet what you really see is that the Left’s intent (all along) is to build, by political dictates, a rich-donor counter weight to the fossil fuel industries, and to that end their is integration between “climate change” political proponents and the industries benefitting from all the government mandates about it (the new donor class beholden to the Left).