Posted on 06/23/2024 3:05:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been chipping away at the oil, gas and coal industries ever since President Joe Biden took office. Wyoming is an energy state that produces half the nation’s coal, as well as part of its oil and gas output. Since the federal government owns nearly half the state’s land, virtually all oil, gas and coal operations in the Cowboy State are heavily impacted by every rule the BLM throws at fossil fuels.
Although the Biden administration is waging war on fossil fuels, Wyoming is fighting back. The state, along with Utah, filed a lawsuit against the agency last Tuesday over its restoration lease program, and Rep. Harriett Hageman, R-Wyo., is rolling out legislation to fight back against the BLM’s proposed ban on federal coal leases.
Coal fight
Wyoming produces about 50% of all thermal coal burned in the U.S. Thermal coal is used in electricity generation, as opposed to metallurgical coal, which is used in heavy industry. The state’s coal production has been in decline since 2008, when it produced over 466 million tons. In 2023, it was down to just over 230 million tons.
That’s partly due to the nation's transition to natural gas-fired electricity generation. It is also due to regulations going back to the Obama administration, and the efforts of well-funded efforts by NGOs like the Sierra Club, which received $500 million for its Beyond Coal campaign from billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
In May, the BLM’s Buffalo Field Office proposed an amendment that would ban future coal leasing in the state’s main coal producing area.
Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., told Just the News that with the rule, the BLM is violating federal law and exceeding its authority with the rule. “The BLM...
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Ow they fight back?
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Here is something I heard from several oil driller roughnecks across the US. In the 1970s the Arab Oil embargo was on. the price of oil skyrocketed but the US would not let oil companies charge the higher price for their oil. they had to use the old price. Only new wells could charge the higher price.
So the oil companies shut down the older wells, and drilled new wells right next to them to get the higher price for oil.
Meanwhile that fraud Tester is pretending to be a champion for oil and coal and it’s a lie.
New Mexico is another state democrat politics has hurt in their energy production.
NM used to have some of the best schools in the 1960s. Now they rank below Mississippi and Arkansas. Something I never thought I would see.
They are Texas and Pennsylvania.
The dirty little secret is that government and business leaders in these states cheer behind closed doors while this “war on energy” goes on. That’s because the only effective mechanism the U.S. government has to shut down energy production is to restrict it on federal lands — and there are hardly any federal lands in Texas and Pennsylvania.
They have kind of a chickenshit governor don’t they?
Maybe Rep. Hageman will run for governor in 2026.
Biden has strong allies in Minnesota - the Helium won’t help the citizens of the US with the democrats in charge.
In the 70s we thought we had pumped out the Texas oil fields. By the 1990s they were 2/3s full again. The oil seeps to the crust, and the left weeps.
Any time a Dim gets elected people need to have lawsuits prepared and ready to go on day 1. It’s what the Dims do. Fight back. Keep the cowardly punks in their place.
You forgot North Dakota
The western states should sue the Federal Government for ownership of Federal lands as it appears to be unconstitutional for Federal Government to own/control these lands.
I have a hard time believing dinosaurs lived thousands of feet below the surface under thousands of feet of ocean. They also lived underground beneath the polar icecap.
What the earth does have deep underground is carbon, hydrogen, heat and pressure.
EC
When mountains are formed, the crust of the earth is pushed up from several colliding directions. This would bury a lot in the process.
Back to oil. Its the lubricant excreted from the bowls of the earth. The process never stops. Heat from the core....
Don’t know anything about him.
I suppose they have been fighting back like the rest of us...n Just being overwhelmed.
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