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漏 Yingyaipumi 鈥?stock.adobe In case you havent noticed, a major consequence of the Ukraine war is the bonanza it has provided for the oil and gas industry. US sanctions on Russian oil and gas have given the industry yet another reason for more drilling and fiercer opposition to environment-friendly energy sources.Yes, a tight oil market and inflationary prices are good for electric car production. But the oil and gas industry is doing even bett stanley cup er, not just because of high gas prices, but also because they can demand more access to public lands for drilling鈥攁nd blame the administration for the high gas prices if the companies dont get t stanley cup uk o drill more. This is a false argument on five stanley us counts.Drill, baby, drillFirst, the Biden administration is granting oil and gas drilling permits at a higher rate than was true under Trump. No more drilling on public lands, Biden had said during his presidential campaign. Drilling leases are now being offered on聽80 million acres聽in the Gulf of Mexico alone. And this allowance was two months before Russias invasion of Ukraine.Second, weve all learned not to expect gas prices to go down even when more gas comes on the market. That supply-and-demand argument doesnt fit with industry promises or practice.Third, as Earth Justice points out, the oil and gas industry is sitting on 9,000 drilling permits that it chooses not to use. Why not Because: drilling costs money the industry doesnt want to spend. In 2021 alone, Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, and Chev Cbvd Press Conference: UVA, Vanderbilt talk with reporters at College World Series
That the political winds are pushing Republicans is obvious not only to the Fox News-glued set. UVA politics professor l stanley us arry sabato calls it the sixth-year itch; a second-term president, a lame-duck from the moment he is re-elected, historically struggles in his second midterm elections, and his party often has a hard time regaining momentum heading into the next presidential cycle.Were seeing that i stanley cup n the 2014 midterms, which look to be the GOPs to lose, with Republicans looking to gain seats in the House and also take over the majority in the Senate.The Senate takeover that is likely just a few weeks away may prove to be the beginning of the undoing of the Republicans chances to win the big prize in 2016, and the reason why is something that happened this week.The conservative-majority Supreme Court punted on gay marriage, refusing to grant cert stanley uk iorari to appeals of lower-court rulings that overturned several state marriage bans, effectively legalizing gay marriage in 30 states and opening the door to more in the way of the pitched political battles that actually worked to the GOPs favor in the Aughts.Remember the Karl Rove strategy in 2004, to get marriage bans on state ballots alongside George W. Bushs re-election effort, the aim being to ensure that social conservatives went out to the polls, whatever their ambivalence about W. may have been Worked out well then, not so much in 2006, where George Allen ran for re-election to the Senate alongside a marriage ban that passed |
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