Posted on 06/30/2022 7:34:35 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s deadline for the Biden administration to respond to his request that they cancel an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal passed on Wednesday, and he now plans to take action to protect the nation’s gasoline supply himself.
The proposed regulations take aim at the Permian Basin, the largest oil field in the United States, accounting for 95,000,000 gallons of gasoline per day or 40% of the oil produced domestically, according to the Texas Governor’s Office.
Abbott claimed that the EPA’s proposal would further raise gas prices for consumers when fuel already costs more than $5 per gallon in much of the country, according to a letter he sent to the administration Monday. Abbott pledged that if he did not hear back from the administration by June 29 that he would take action to “protect the production of oil—and the gasoline that comes from it.”
“Even as Americans are struggling with $5 gas and record-breaking inflation, team Biden continues to double down on their political commitments to ‘end all fossil fuels,” former EPA Chief of Staff Mandy Gunasekara told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Abbott’s letter comes after the EPA announced last week that it was considering reversing a 2017 ruling that the basin was in compliance with air pollution standards. For that decision the EPA cited emissions levels from the basin from 2014-2016 to determine that operations were in accordance with federal regulations, but environmentalists say air quality has declined precipitously since then, Argus Media reported.
Abbott does not dispute the increased air pollution in his letter, but rather focuses on the practical implications of constraining domestic oil supply at a time of record high prices.
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Six-dollar gas and seven-dollar diesel, here we come!
PING!
BiXiden needs to be shut down.
America is ill advised to follow a GND policy of implementing The Great Reset.
After yesterday’s SCOTUS decision, the Biden administration’s strategy is likely to end up on the scrap heap.
Don’t you know, this means war!
I think the SCOTUS just took away the EPA’s ability to do
stuff like this.
The EPA should be shuttered.
.... Well .... Ya .... Biden did say that he would END Fossil Fuels in America ..... This is kinda how you do it ...... Right ...
Ping.
Yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling curtailing the administrative authority of the EPA may curtail any hopes of shuttering domestic production through Clean Air regulations.
At this point I absolutely believe he should be silenced. By adding prices to our gasoline and other things he will destroy us...especially those of use with little or no income due to our age. Already the elderly or any one else so blessed with a minimum income are having trouble going here and there...even to the point of not going grocery shopping as often normal and just “doing without”.
I do think that it is his intention as he has been defined as a Marxist and I guess we all know Marxists do not believe that any person should have more than any other or have a brain to coordinate such an endeavor.
Frankly I find him and his henchmen disgusting.
Go Abbott!!!
Well, SCOTUS certainly did that with respect to carbon emissions, but Butt-Head is trying to ideologically restrict or close the Permian Basin based on ozone pollution, which is a long-established regulatory function of the federal government. I’m not sure the SCOTUS ruling applies to that one.
Enjoy your $10/gal America, the Barak OBiden Depression is about to begin.
I hope you’re right.
Madness ruling our country!
Butt-head is an enfeebled old man with a weak, deteriorating mind who is likely following orders from other people. Witness that scandalous photo of him holding that detailed cue card from a few days ago.
Don’t get me wrong: I utterly despise him, but he’s still hardly or only partly responsible. He is only the tip of a bloody Marxist spear.
What could an enemy of our nation do that would be more destructive?
Those oil fields were JUST purchased three weeks ago by a new company. The company just merged, created itself from two other companies. Just.
Its very interesting to me.
Look at the date.
https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2022/06/30/momentum-quantum-sitio-mineral-rights-deal.html
President Retard waging war against the states again 🤪
What a decrepit old corrupt excuse of a human
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