The phrase "fracking ban" has gone out of vogue with Kamala and company, but their end goal is still the same.
Fox Business (9/3/24) reports: "Federal courts and the climate lobby are waging 'war' on the American oil worker by blocking fracking permits, Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy told FOX Business in response to a recent piece from the Wall Street Journal editorial board on Tuesday. The WSJ article homed in on restrictions placed on offshore drilling, emphasizing, in particular, a recent court ruling from Federal Judge Deborah Boardman which could, in their words, 'stop almost all offshore oil production in the Gulf of Mexico.' 'When the courts do these actions. They are against the American worker. They are against the American economy. They're also, by the way, since U.S. natural gas helps lower global greenhouse gas emissions. They're against the world environment. And they also say they're against our allies because our gas supports countries like Germany. It's overactive courts doing a heck of a lot of damage,' Cassidy told Stuart Varney. When Varney asked whether offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico could come to a halt, Cassidy replied: They're trying to 'increase the cost basis.' 'They don't want to ban fracking, so to speak. What they're trying to do is just death by a thousand cuts and, if you can never get the deal done, your costs rise, and finally you just walk away from it. You see projects where this happens, and they're doing it on the basis of ‘environmental justice,’ which is very difficult to define,' he said. 'Ultimately, this is a war on the American worker, the global environment and our allies.'"
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"Wind and solar do not work as advertised by politicians, bureaucrats, and activists. The replacement of traditional thermal generation with less-dense, less-reliable energy is driven not by market demand or technological reality but by orders from capitol buildings around the country. We get effectively nothing from this transition."
– Joshua Antonini,
Mackinac Center
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