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...