Yes, but the Dims don’t want you to even know about the royalty paid to the government, let alone give it a second thought!
Their first choice would be, however, to stop any additional drilling, let gas prices rise, and, like another article postulates, we all shut up and suffer in our dark sweltering homes.
The Democrats want us all to live in Paleolithic Squalor.
They want the suburbs shut down and people to crawl back into the cities, in a sort of reverse Pol-pot. Cities that will be darkened, unheated and uncooled.
Leftist collective paradise. Everyone living in an absolutely miserable heap with the leftist at the top telling us all what to do.
Slaves will be cheap. Who else will tend the GoreBall’s gardens and shine the shingles on John Edwards’ Metastizing Mansion?
They want to take away our way of life, people. They hate us. They hate us with every fiber of their being.