Posted on 09/20/2022 11:09:35 AM PDT by rktman
Yes, oil prices are slightly down, but that is only because Joe Biden continues to dip into the dwindling supply in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. So you can expect the average price at the pump, which even as it now stands is still much higher than you paid before Biden’s ascent, to spike again.
While it would run counter to the environmental partners of the administration, the solution would be to extract more energy from the land under our feet. That means drilling for natural gas and oil. And if one believes the mainstream media, one would think that the people of the nation have cried out in unison to halt drilling and projects such as the Dakota Access Pipeline. And politicians and activists both abroad and at home are all too happy to save the planet, even at the expense of average people everywhere.
I have long said that if government decisions haven’t hit you yet, don’t worry, the government will get around to it sooner or later. And now, it has gotten around to members of the Navajo Nation.
Fox News reports that the administration is getting ready to finalize a rule from the Department of the Interior that would create a 20-year moratorium on oil and gas leasing in a 10-mile radius of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The moratorium was announced in 2021. Some 336,000 acres would be off-limits to exploration and extraction and came at the behest of some tribes, Democratic politicians, and environmental activists. While this is good news for the Patagonia and North Face set, it is not good news for tribal members who own royalties on those lands.
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The Navajo Nation is really taking it on the chin from the “climate change” boys and girls. Coal mines are all closed down. Power plants are just about all gone. I don’t think it’s going to take more than three of four of them to flip the switch on the massive solar panel farms to turn the panels off and on. Jobs were few and far between on the rez before. Now, they’re non-existent. The Hopis were fighting the Climate Changers off for a while but that tribe is just too small to be effective.
“While this is good news for the Patagonia and North Face set, it is not good news for tribal members who own royalties on those lands”
Where do Northface and Patagonia source the petrol based products they use to make their overpriced clothing?
What did they expect a Dim prez to do, given that Dim Andrew Jackson, who started the Dim party, was the trail of tears prez?
Gas prices down?
No around here, up .50¢ a gallon in the last ten days.
As an aside, why are the Tribes who are “Separate Nations” with their own laws and exempt from many we suffer under allowed to vote in US elections?
Trust the Government?
Just ask any Indian.......................
Indian casinos are just fine.
Drilling on tribal lands…NO!
Zactly....Trump did so much for the Four Corners tribes and they stabbed him in the back.
Demand is down due to higher gas prices. Biden kept prices from really going thru the roof by releasing oil from the Strategic Reserve.
Demand is down due to higher gas prices. Biden kept prices from really going thru the roof by releasing oil from the Strategic Reserve.
B-but they’re simple people of the land, herding their sheep and making blankets and jewelry./s
Is the Navajo Nation a sovereign nation?
They can fix their own problems.
Has next to, if not absolutely, nothing to do with the SPR. But they will tell you that all day. Oh, gas prices in NV have gotten above $5/gal again. Some drop. 😠
Gotta luv them Italians.
NOT! They may have released some but next to no effect.
Price of diesel sure isn’t down any..
I know some Navajos in Page, AZ, really nice people, interesting to hang out with, but their attitude about political things are very different from most Americans. A few years back they got a large settlement from the US government over past royalty issues, I think it was around $550 million. I asked one what he thought about it when the award was finalized. He shrugged and said, “I hope the Elders make good decisions about how to use the money.” They seem very passive about their governance, they just concentrate on their daily lives.
They do have a good sense of humor. We got into his old Pathfinder to go for a drive and he said, “This car has Navajo air conditioning. Roll down the windows!”
Down to $4.67 from well over $5 here, but not down as much as gas.
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