Posted on 02/03/2021 12:39:59 PM PST by george76
Joe Biden just put me out of business by suspending new oil and gas leases and drilling permits. I am a petroleum geologist and generate drilling prospects in the Rocky Mountains on federal lands. I worked six years to get a prospect ready to drill and Biden just illegally broke the terms of the lease, killing the deal.
This action was done under the guise of helping climate change but will not stop one CO2 molecule from being released, as there is nothing in the executive order to reduce consumption.
No one is going to drive less, fly less or stop heating their homes or businesses. The oil demand will remain the same and we will need to purchase oil from overseas. This decision is not based on science, logic or even common sense. Why do you want to put Americans out of work when you are not solving the problem?
Oil and gas is a major business in Colorado and the rest of the Rocky Mountains which are 50% federal lands. The industry provides major tax income from production and payback royalties from federal lands to our schools. This action will result in the loss of millions of oil industry jobs and tax base for all the Rocky Mountain States.
With 50% of the potential lands off limits to explore, it will very quickly kill the industry and accomplish nothing. Biden’s slogan should be “Make America Poor Again.”
— Tim T. Schowalter, Granby
Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
Engage in civil disobedience.
Dissent is patriotic.
Hire mercenaries and drill anyways.
This Marxist cabal will not stop until we are all in soup lines, (after they thin the herd with pandemics and vaccines) while they fly around on private jets and eat Wagyu beef.
Gird your loins. History is replete with instances of Government takings when they run out of revenue. The Federal Govt will be supported by the Federal Reserve. But what will State and local Govts do without that support?
LOL
Learn to code, or learn to shoot. That is the choice................
Drill sideways from private land.
Joe Biden is a thief, a disgusting low life. We’ve all stepped in higher forms of life.
What if every boarded up business was grafittied with
“BIDEN’S FAULT!”
Learn to code. John Kerry says you should be grateful for them eliminating your horrible job.
Who did you vote for Schowalter? Enough of you in the Centennial state voted for Gropey so take it up with them. The rest of us all knew fully well what we were in for.
It’s learn to solar or de-mine now.
Republicans haven’t won in Colorado since ‘04 (you get what you vote for)
When did all mail in balloting begin?
That seems to be the choice many people are being given.
Quid Pro Joe will put me out of business by April.
Such is a communist dictator. See Venezuela for specifics.
5.56mm
“Drill sideways from private land.”
Sure if you want to pay a huge fine and go to prison.
So who did he vote for ?
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