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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
I concur with the responder who posted : 
9,000 parcels of federal land is available for oil companies to LEASE, but the government won't issue any PERMITS to actually drill there. That's like telling a landlord that they can build a new apartment building but they are not allowed to rent the apartments. A 3 month hiatus in the 18 cent/gal. federal tax is like putting a band aid on a chain saw wound. The answer is to open the Keystone pipeline, issue permits for drilling, and tell the ________(fill in the blank) that global warming (due to man's activity) is a myth. |
If the goal is to get the price of gas down, I don't see how sending more dirty Canadian tarsand oil to China will help. US is already a net exporter of gas. Start by blocking that - could do it tomorrow. But, that will do nothing to lower the price of gas, just like more drilling will do nothing. The problem is a demand problem. People want more and don't (yet) care what the price is. Who has not done something they wanted to do, especially after the pandemic, because gas is up? I don't know anyone. Lots of my neighbors are cruising in their RVs out to Colorado or where ever. They grumble, but it does not stop them. Of course the poor, the most powerless, will/are suffering but no one cares about them.
We'll save Global Warming for another day.