We need a general tweet of the day thread

Kaepsknee said:

RaceBannon said:

This seems problematic

http://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1516851257381642244?t=DVtucNNX8X6LfUEIXYj8WA&s=19

Interesting thread

We’ve also lost 3 refineries due to Jewish lightening, as it was once called, in the last 2 months as well

And lightning seems to strike twice. As the Dufur Fire was proceeded by this fire down the road a ways in Hermiston in February.

https://amp.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article258660018.html

Welp They listed the Hermiston Fire in the article.

But another fire happened yesterday to the HQ of the nations largest independent organic food processor in Dufur, Or.

https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/fire-destroys-azure-standard-headquarter-facility/article_7df4657c-c03e-11ec-a8c2-5f88e266c6db.html

And now the rest of the story. The dementia patient is really really serious about new oil and gas production.

https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/feds-offering-80-less-in-oil-and-natural-gas-lease-sales-increasing-royalty-rate/article_287fb466-c0ca-11ec-9e41-dff7d1378bc4.html


Feds offering 80% less in oil and natural gas lease sales, increasing royalty rate

The U.S. Department of Interior announced it is making only 20% of eligible acreage for oil and natural gas production available for leasing on federal lands to comply with a federal court order.

In his first week in office, President Joe Biden issued an executive order directing new oil and natural gas leases on public lands and waters to be halted by the Interior Department. The agency was also tasked to review existing permits for fossil fuel development.

The administration was sued and last June, a federal judge in Louisiana struck down the executive order. Issuing lease sales, the agency said, was “in compliance with an injunction from the Western District of Louisiana.”

The sales would focus on the “highest and best use of America’s public lands, reflecting an 80 percent reduction from nominated acreage” and “reflects the balanced approach to energy development and management of our nation’s public lands,” the agency said in a news release.

On Friday, the Bureau of Land Management posted notices for significantly reformed onshore lease sales that address “deficiencies in the federal oil and gas leasing program.”

“While we’re glad to see BLM is finally going to announce a sale, the extreme reduction of acreage by 80%, after a year and a quarter without a single sale, is unwarranted and does nothing to show that the administration takes high energy prices seriously,” Western Energy Alliance President Kathleen Sgamma said.

The group, which represents 200 member companies engaged in oil and natural gas exploration and production in the West, sued the Biden administration last year for violating federal law by halting lease sales.

On Monday, the BLM issued final environmental assessments and sale notices for the upcoming oil and gas lease sales. It also increased the royalty rate to 18.75% to “ensure fair return for the American taxpayer and on par with rates charged by states and private landowners.”

House Committee on Natural Resources Chair, Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, D-Ariz., said increasing the royalty rate was a good move.

"If we're going to let the fossil fuel industry pocket more of our public lands for drilling, we should at least make sure they're paying a decent price to do it," he said in a statement.

But there’s nothing fair about this for the taxpayer, others argue. The policy will only further depress American production, keep gasoline prices high, and hurt independent oil and gas producers and small businesses, like those represented by Western Energy Alliance.

Small mom and pop companies in the West have been hit hard by the Biden administration’s energy policies, and taxing them after halting lease sales for over a year only adds insult to injury, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said.

The agency’s argument is also flawed because producing on federal lands already costs more than producing on nonfederal lands, critics of the policy argue.

“Raising the royalty rate 50 percent increases the costs of production on federal lands, which already carry a higher cost than nonfederal lands,” Sgamma said. “This increased tax will have the effect of any other tax increase – you get less of what’s taxed, in this case, federal oil and natural gas. At a time when the administration should be increasing production, it continues to introduce new policies that further depress American production and keep gasoline prices high.”

RaceBannon said:

http://twitter.com/bristei/status/1517165214864744449?t=QtpJy7TPDDQVUrXaAJiehg&s=19

Jordan, funny and cute.

WestlinnDuck said:

Beat me to it. Oh, the sweet sweet tears of Chrissie Wallace. He chose badly.

RaceBannon said:

http://twitter.com/bristei/status/1517165214864744449?t=QtpJy7TPDDQVUrXaAJiehg&s=19

Tanking the presidential debates to get a sweet gig with CNN+


You hate to see it

The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews have been running fund raising ads 24/7 on Fox News to help out the Ukrainian Jews. The last info I could find was from their 2016 990 and they spend half their raised money on raising money and salaries. That's way to high a bar for me to swallow as that is definitely in scam territory, but not to the level of the Clinton Foundation.

WestlinnDuck said:

The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews have been running fund raising ads 24/7 on Fox News to help out the Ukrainian Jews. The last info I could find was from their 2016 990 and they spend half their raised money on raising money and salaries. That's way to high a bar for me to swallow as that is definitely in scam territory, but not to the level of the Clinton Foundation.

I have to admit those Ads always set off my bullshit alarm, even more so when they started running the Ukraine ones.

Jewish holocaust survivors from WWII?

Do you know how old and how few of these people there might be out there?

Reminded me of all the homeless “Vietnam Vets” I’d see panhandling in late 90s and early 2000.

GrundleStiltzkin said:

How many of you jabronis lost money on this?

https://twitter.com/SDNYnews/status/1517272632902750209

They finally got him. Or them. Or somebody.