Mike Arcuri sounds like a PR hack working for a gas drilling company, promising protection while actually defending plans to go right ahead with the environmentally risky plans that were already in place. He won’t take a stand
Drilling is taking place already under the status quo, which Representative Emanuel Cleaver supports. Yet, Jacob Turk accuses Cleaver of being “against drilling for U.S. oil in U.S. soil.”
If an oil company isn’t even using the leases of public lands they already have, why should they take on yet more leases… unless what those oil companies really want to do is just squat on their leases of public lands with oil under them only in order to prevent the oil from being drilled, thus decreasing supply and artificially driving up the cost of petroleum products so that they can make a bigger profit without doing any more work.
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.
