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mpm4q2 t1_itiinmu wrote

Reply to comment by gusterfell in Can anyone explain Ashley Marie Kalus's energy policy? by sriracha_Salad

Btw, those permits are unused because there is no oil there. Just because you have a permit doesn’t mean that there will be oil to drill there!!

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gusterfell t1_itim1pe wrote

That's absurd. Why would anyone go through the permitting process to drill on land without oil reserves?

Regardless, that doesn't answer the question of how the GOP would get the oil companies to drill more and flood the market, reducing their own profit margins in the process? Seems pretty hard to do without some of that nasty government regulation.

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argument_sketch t1_itimo66 wrote

Republicans are always against regulation because they don’t care about our future. As long as we’re all fat and happy with our low oil and gas prices, they don’t care that our children and grandchildren will grow up with the destructive results of climate change.

How about I throw all the toxic waste I produce over into your yard instead of disposing it properly for more expense? Because if you wanna stop me, that’s OVER-REGULATION!

I’ve never seen anybody more shortsighted than a republican

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mpm4q2 t1_itim5nu wrote

That’s not how it works my friend.

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