Guest “You can’t fix stupid” by David Middleton
The same corrupt Obama judge who lawlessly nullified the November 2021 Gulf of Mexico lease sale, blocked lease sales in Wyoming, may have signed fraudulent FISA warrants in the Russia collusion hoax and attempted to unlawfully persecute General Michael Flynn, has now brokered a deal between the rabidly anti-American Biden Interior Department and an Enviromarxist terrorist organization to potentially retroactively cancel over 2,000 oil & gas leases in Wyoming… All because climate change.
Biden review jeopardizes more than 2,000 oil and gas leases
By Nicole Pollack Casper Star-Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange Jun 4, 2022CASPER — The Biden administration will redo the environmental review of more than 2,000 Wyoming oil and gas leases sold between 2015 and 2020 — including virtually all of the leases issued under former president Donald Trump — in accordance with a trio of settlement agreements approved Wednesday by a federal judge.
None of the leases have been vacated, but their future is uncertain. The Department of the Interior now has to reevaluate and retroactively justify more than two dozen lease sales. If it decides it can’t, or its reasoning doesn’t satisfy the court, the sales could be reversed and any existing permits revoked.
Jeremy Nichols, climate and energy program director for plaintiff WildEarth Guardians, said the decision was unprecedented.
“This is getting to the heart of the federal oil and gas program,” Nichols said. “The question here will be not whether it’s OK to lease in the Red Desert or the Powder River Basin, but whether the federal oil and gas program even makes sense in the midst of the climate crisis.”
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“Backroom court settlements like this, negotiated by the Biden Administration and its anti-domestic oil and gas allies, will continue to decide the fate of Wyoming’s primary economic driver until Congress reasserts its control and establishes a coherent national energy policy,” Ryan McConnaughey, communications director for the Petroleum Association of Wyoming, said in an emailed statement.
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U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras ordered the department in 2019 to reassess some of the Wyoming leases. A year and a half later, he declared the agency’s second attempt inadequate.
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In the cases before Contreras, the environmental groups argued, successfully, that the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires the department to assess the “direct, indirect and cumulative effects” that new leasing would have on the environment and the climate. But the oil and gas industry thinks that’s an inaccurate interpretation of the landmark 1970 legislation, which doesn’t mention climate change.
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“Some groups will not be satisfied until NEPA is twisted into a law unrecognizable to its drafters, used to halt all mineral resource production in Wyoming,” McConnaughey said.
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Laramie Boomerang
This is perhaps the most egregious case of “sue and settle” in the history of Enviromarxist lawfare against the US economy. Enviromarxist terrorist organizations sue regulatory agencies, who, when under Democrat control, quickly settle the lawsuits acceding to Envriomarxist demands that often bear no resemblance to the statutory authorities of the regulatory agencies.
Ponder this for a moment…
“This is getting to the heart of the federal oil and gas program,” Nichols said. “The question here will be not whether it’s OK to lease in the Red Desert or the Powder River Basin, but whether the federal oil and gas program even makes sense in the midst of the climate crisis.”
There is no “climate crisis”… While, there might be a potential long-term climate change problem, this is an actual crisis, a “real and present danger” to these United States of America:
$9.45/gal!! Thanks to Matthew for this pic of the Chevron in Mendocino, CA- the most expensive station in the country and the highest price we’ve recorded. It’s over $3/gal higher than the California average and is a definite outlier. #gasprices pic.twitter.com/7AUuxDLCGI
— Patrick De Haan ⛽️📊 (@GasBuddyGuy) June 1, 2022
Gas has nearly reached an incredible $10 a gallon
By Eileen AJ Connelly
June 4, 2022New Yorkers paying five bucks a gallon for gasoline may think things can’t get much worse — but in one California town people are shelling out nearly double that for a fill-up
A Chevron station in the coastal village of Mendocino about 175 miles north of San Francisco was charging $9.60 a gallon for regular on Friday afternoon.
That’s more than $3 a gallon above the state average of $6.30, and $4.78 higher than the national average of $4.82, according to AAA.
But individual stations throughout the country are charging more than the average, including one LA station that topped $8 on Friday.
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New York Post
While we can’t fix stupid, we can dust off this letter from Thomas Jefferson:
The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson, 1787
Auckland Region, New Zealand – highest price in my immediate vicinity equivalent to $9.98 USD per US gallon. And thats about 70 km from center of the largest city in NZ, and after a temporary tax cut for the “Cost of living crisis”. And all of this – be it foreign wars, or fraudulent climate crisis – is caused by Political choices – there are no natural supply constraints. The peasants are once again being starved into submission by their feudal overlords. The only difference these days, seems to be that a significant proportion have been conned into thinking its for their benefit.
Note that these folks wish to apply a bastardized version of NEPA rigorously to oil and gas operations, but when it comes to wind energy projects on Federal land, or new transmission lines carrying power from a wind farm to some existing tie point on Federal land, they will either not mention NEPA or try to apply its weakest form.
They are going to apply the standards that they weren’t able to get past congress.
Wasn’t one the defenses to deflect energy prices from Brandon’s Expletive Actions (that reversed the USA being energy independent) that he’d approved some oil and gas exploration leases?
And now he’s going to retroactively cancel them?!?!
So what’s the cause of rising energy prices?
“Bueller? Bueller?”
My muscle car takes at least mid grade. The bright side of this story is that mid grade is only 9 cents higher than 87 octane. I regularly pay 30 cents more.
I have snowmobiles, boats, chainsaws, and other high performance power equipment that uses nothing but no ethanol premium. Today in far northern WI that was at a $0.75 premium, $5.54/gallon, up from $4.79 for 87 regular/10%E.
Disclaimer : IANAL.
Can anyone out there who is a (US) legal expert please provide, in layman’s terms :
1) An explanation of why the DoI “has to” do any such thing instead of, for example, appealing to a higher court or contesting the “authority” of the court / judge in question
and
2) A complete list of the criteria “the court” (/ the individual judge ?) will be using to decide whether (or not …) the DoI has done enough to “satisfy” it (/ him / her / them / it / …)
DOI agreed to do this when they settled the lawsuit with the Enviromarxist terrorist organization.
If Contreras behaved lawfully, the case would have been summarily dismissed because the Enviromarxist terrorist organization had no legitimate standing to sue
Jefferson was right. Not a peep from the republican party on any of this. Not even a useless hearing.
Just listened to president Putin’s speech about how the west and their stupid green agenda has caused the world energy crisis. For a man who is dead and crazy he sure seems to undersand the world and the crazy leaders that now head the failing Western Governments. I guess this makes me a Putin puppet, so be it. I sure wish we had a leader that cared about our country the way Putin cares about his. Hear is his speech translated form the excellent geo-political podcast by “The Duran” https://theduran.locals.com/ The speech starts around 118 it is excellent.
might as well, since he is a complete idiot.
Thank you sir, may I have another?
I don’t understand how any sue and settle sweetheart deal can bind future administrations. Can’t they just reopen the case and get a hearing on the merits? If this isn’t the law, Congress should make it so.
$9.45/gal!!
Wow! Those guys need a little motivation it looks like. C’mon! 65 cents. You can do it!
— or fifty-five even.