The Big Oil Civil War of Louie Gohmert
Under Gohmert’s proposed law, if the people Missouri had a piece of wilderness where they didn’t want oil drilling, and Texas oil companies came and demanded oil drilling rights, the people of Missouri have to agree to the demands of Texas, or else forfeit the right to get any gasoline from outside its borders. Gohmert’s bill, H.R.4893, would have created a system of economic sanctions within the United States, from one state against another, and all for the benefit of big oil corporations in states like Texas.
