Posted on 06/01/2021 8:14:16 PM PDT by Enterprise
This bill would have been very hard on the working class, says Tim Benson, a policy analyst at The Heartland Institute.
“It might be hard for some people to believe, but California is the still the seventh-largest oil producing state in the country, and more than 150,000 Californians work in the industry,” Benson said. “Banning fracking would have put most of these people out of work.
“Thanks to the state’s other ridiculous energy policies, California’s electricity prices are already 60 percent higher than the U.S. average and banning fracking would cause those costs to rise,” Benson said.
Even some die-hard climate-alarmist California legislators recognized voters, already pushing to recall Gov. Newsom, would not be happy if legislators increased their energy costs further and put more people out of work, says Benson.
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Whatever the reason, good decision.
Call me a cynic, but this somehow sounds like a strategy to help Newsom defeat a recall vote.
NOTHING good is done by government in CA unless it preserves the Democrat iron grip on power.
I think your cynicism is well founded.
not surprising. i bet safe-seat mccarthy from bakersfield put in a word to his uniparty masters. it’s how it’s done these days.
I’ll be looking for the sun to rise over the barn to the west in the morning.
Alaska and states like Californica and every state which has so called fossil energy reserves both coal and oil and this includes llinois which has both. Cal and Alaska, TX, and possibly Penn has enough stuff there they not only get the stuff from the ground but process it into fuel so that their gas would only cost $1.50 or even less a gallon
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When our energy resources use are prohibited from being used by political edict, that curiously benefits Russian oil supply
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3963509/posts
Pipe line shut downs affecting our resources and supply. which result in thousands losing jobs and reliance on costly imports from foreign sources. Denying our energy resources use which if fully developed would turn out to be a major source of income when exported also gives Russia control over Germany .
Disasterous results should be expected when such edicts are issued . Those who order and support such decisions should be impeached beccause of the serious damage being done to the economy.
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They’re just trying to ban a scary word that they don’t even spell correctly. 98% don’t even know what fracing is let alone what actually takes place during a frac or why we do it. Hell even google can’t spell it correctly.
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