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A Sham Oil Emergency is Now Being Used to Plunder Public Lands

A Sham Oil Emergency is Now Being Used to Plunder Public Lands

They’re calling it an emergency. What they really mean is no rules, no resistance, and no land left behind.

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They called it an emergency.
Then they kept exporting oil.

That’s the scam. That’s the sentence. Everything else is camouflage.

If your self-preservation instincts aren’t working right you might remember on “Day One”, the Trump administration – newly reinstalled and moving like a liquidation crew for public lands – declared a national energy emergency. The goal? Make it easier to drill, lease, and extract fossil fuels from federal lands and waters. Fast.

Interior officials called it “long overdue.” Doug Burgum, now the administration’s energy point man, said it would “unleash American production.” The White House warned of “economic peril” unless drilling was expanded immediately.

Here’s the part they left out:

The United States is already producing more oil and natural gas than any country in the history of the planet.

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We’re pumping over 13 million barrels a day. Shipping millions of those barrels overseas. Oil and gas companies are sitting on 25 million acres of public land leases, with mo…

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