Donald Trump Signs Order to Protect Fracking, Oil and Gas Industries

[Anti Federalist]

Donald Trump Signs Order to Protect Fracking, Oil and Gas Industries

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...r-to-protect-fracking-oil-and-gas-industries/

Joshua Caplan 31 Oct 2020

President Donald Trump on Saturday announced the signing of an executive order to protect both the fracking and oil and gas industries following former Vice President Joe Biden’s pledge to “transition from the oil industry.”

“Just signed an order to protect fracking and the oil and gas industry,” the president wrote on Twitter. “This means JOBS, low energy bills, and continued AMERICAN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE! Sleepy Joe would BAN fracking and destroy American energy jobs! He has NO clue!!”

Just signed an order to protect fracking and the oil and gas industry. This means JOBS, low energy bills, and continued AMERICAN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE! Sleepy Joe would BAN fracking and destroy American energy jobs! He has NO clue!!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2020

A White House fact sheet of the order — titled “President Donald J. Trump Is Supporting Hydraulic Fracturing and Other Technologies to Protect Our Jobs, Economic Opportunity, and National Security” — reads that the president will undertake the following actions to protect the fracking and oil and gas industries:

Due to public calls to ban or restrict such technologies, the President has directed his Administration to assess the potential effects of such bans or restrictions on American citizens.
The Administration will assess the potential consequences of fracking bans – such as job losses – on Americans who are directly or indirectly benefiting from the energy industry and other industries, including mining for sand and other minerals.
The President wants to protect these jobs and help out-of-work Americans who are seeking good jobs.
No responsible public official should sacrifice vast numbers of American jobs and livelihoods to appease domestic radicals and curry favor with foreign powers.

Biden made the pledge to “transition” from the oil industry during the final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee.

A transcript of Biden and Trump’s exchange on the matter is as follows:

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Would you close down the oil industry?

FORMER VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I would transition from the oil industry, yes.

TRUMP: Oh, that’s a big statement.

BIDEN: It is a big statement.

KRISTEN WELKER: Why would you do that?

BIDEN: Because the oil industry pollutes. It has to be replaced by renewable energy over time. And I’d stop giving federal subsidies to the oil industry. He won’t give federal subsidies to solar and wind. Why are we giving it to the oil industry?

TRUMP: We actually do give it to solar and wind. And that’s maybe the biggest statement, in terms of business, because basically what he’s saying is he’s going to destroy the oil industry. Will you remember that, Texas? Will you remember that, Pennsylvania? Oklahoma? Ohio?

During the second Democrat Party presidential primary debate in July, Biden was asked whether there would be “any place for fossil fuels, including coal and fracking, in a Biden administration,” to which he answered: “No, we would — we would work it out. We would make sure it’s eliminated and no more subsidies for either one of those, either — any fossil fuel.” In addition, Biden went as far as to promise there would be “no new fracking” during the final Democrat presidential primary debate.

Despite his opposition to fracking being on the record, Biden attempted to claim during the final presidential debate that he “never said I oppose fracking.”

Since Biden’s pledge to “transition” away from oil, President Trump has repeatedly warned supporters in battleground states such as Pennsylvania that his opponent’s energy plan would be an “economic death sentence.”

“He’s going to ban fracking and deliver an economic death sentence for Pennsylvania, and many other places in our country,” the president said at a recent campaign rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania. “He will eradicate your energy and send Pennsylvania into a crippling depression.”

 

[AngryCanadian]

Biden Admin does plan to ban them all. Green Climate like wind or others wont create jobs most of those would be automated.

 

[Anti Globalist]

Makes sense for him to do this. He's using it as a security blanket to prevent Biden from doing anything if elected.

 

[A Son of Liberty]

People seem to have this idea that the only thing we do with O&G is create electricity and fuel. There is almost nothing in your life that isn't a DIRECT byproduct of O&G. I'm curious to know where Joe Biden thinks we'll get things like plastics, synthetic fibers, paints, etc., without O&G? I suspect that we'll of course still use those things, we'll just get them from other countries, where the "pollution" (jobs, wealth generation, actually) continues on, unabated.

Take a look around at the space you're currently occupying, wherever that may be... nearly everything you see, if humans made it, odds are oil/gas byproducts were involved.

 

[devil21]

LOL@more fake Trump history for Breitbart readers. It's cool, it's not like they'll actually read the order.


(Pssst....it says "send me a report no later than a week before the next inauguration". It does precisely zero else.)

 

[Anti Federalist]

LOL@more fake Trump history for Breitbart readers. It's cool, it's not like they'll actually read the order.


(Pssst....it says "send me a report no later than a week before the next inauguration". It does precisely zero else.)

Why do you insist on insulting my intelligence?

Don't you think I realize that, that I realize this is just an EO "establishing a commission" and that it really doesn't do much of anything in real terms other than prove a political point.

Of course this is political...but why shouldn't it be?

It's the only way the people can be made to understand what Son of Liberty wrote in post #4.

It's not like the Marxist media organs can be counted on to honestly report on the issue and honestly hold the two POUTS candidates accountable to what they clearly state they are going to do once in office. So why not announce what you think and plan in an EO, even if it is toothless.

Real reform and protections must be enacted through the proper process.

And I tire of having eggs thrown at me and other folks from people up on the fencetops, the "I'm-above-it-all-and-so-much-better-than-you-tarians" who think that they are somehow helping the situation by pointlessly bringing these things up, while some of us are in the mud, fighting for our economic, or, I'm convinced, our very real flesh and blood lives.

 

[devil21]

Why do you insist on insulting my intelligence?

Don't you think I realize that, that I realize this is just an EO "establishing a commission" and that it really doesn't do much of anything in real terms other than prove a political point.

Of course this is political...but why shouldn't it be?

It's the only way the people can be made to understand what Son of Liberty wrote in post #4.

It's not like the Marxist media organs can be counted on to honestly report on the issue and honestly hold the two POUTS candidates accountable to what they clearly state they are going to do once in office. So why not announce what you think and plan in an EO, even if it is toothless.

Real reform and protections must be enacted through the proper process.

And I tire of having eggs thrown at me and other folks from people up on the fencetops, the "I'm-above-it-all-and-so-much-better-than-you-tarians" who think that they are somehow helping the situation by pointlessly bringing these things up, while some of us are in the mud, fighting for our economic, or, I'm convinced, our very real flesh and blood lives.

I remember when you weren't a partisan cheerleader and you saw through posts like this for what they were. Man, that seems so long ago. Hard to imagine anyone could revert back. Now you're pushing typical 11th hour campaign bs like it's important or has any bearing whatsoever on what happens after election.

(Btw, I didn't mention you or quote you so taking my first post personally was your choice. My comment was about the content of the order and what it does and doesn't do. I'd think it's clear by now that Breitbart is a complete nonsense website. eta: Perhaps it's not clear to some here that many of my posts are not really direct replies to the poster but instead are directed to the random thread-clicker.)

 

[AngryCanadian]

I remember when you weren't a partisan cheerleader and you saw through posts like this for what they were. Man, that seems so long ago. Hard to imagine anyone could revert back. Now you're pushing typical 11th hour campaign bs like it's important or has any bearing whatsoever on what happens after election.

(Btw, I didn't mention you or quote you so taking my first post personally was your choice. My comment was about the content of the order and what it does and doesn't do. I'd think it's clear by now that Breitbart is a complete nonsense website.)

But CNN is a good news source that "Its fiery but mostly peacefully protests" right?

 

[devil21]

But CNN is a good news source that "Its fiery but mostly peacefully protests" right?

CNN? I challenge you to find any post I've ever made that incorporates a CNN link as if it is information, with maybe the exception of Ron's campaign days. Go ahead, I'll wait.

 

[A Son of Liberty]

I remember when you weren't a partisan cheerleader and you saw through posts like this for what they were. Man, that seems so long ago. Hard to imagine anyone could revert back. Now you're pushing typical 11th hour campaign bs like it's important or has any bearing whatsoever on what happens after election.

(Btw, I didn't mention you or quote you so taking my first post personally was your choice. My comment was about the content of the order and what it does and doesn't do. I'd think it's clear by now that Breitbart is a complete nonsense website.)

You know, I've been against the idea of voting for years now, for a number of reasons that I don't think are necessary to go into here.

But in this particular election, I think it's foolish to think that there isn't a real distinction to be made. The LEFT has made clear their intentions over the course of the preceding 4 years.

I'm not voting FOR Trump, this year. I'm voting AGAINST the LEFT. Against the Democrat party, against the major, corporate media establishment, against the cultural marxists who WILL become open, political marxists if they're given just a whiff of an opportunity. I'm voting against the utterly chaotic and civilization-destroying Critical Theory proponents.

I'm in a swing state. My vote may well count. I'm voting FOR time... time to prepare more for what is INEVITABLE - the conflict that the LEFT is desperate for... they're SAYING it, out loud. All you have to do is listen.

 

[devil21]

You know, I've been against the idea of voting for years now, for a number of reasons that I don't think are necessary to go into here.

But in this particular election, I think it's foolish to think that there isn't a real distinction to be made. The LEFT has made clear their intentions over the course of the preceding 4 years.

I'm not voting FOR Trump, this year. I'm voting AGAINST the LEFT.

Because that's so different than every other election? Isn't that what it's turned into, especially since Ron stopped running for President? Not voting FOR something but instead voting against the other thing?

Against the Democrat party, against the major, corporate media establishment, against the cultural marxists who WILL become open, political marxists if they're given just a whiff of an opportunity. I'm voting against the utterly chaotic and civilization-destroying Critical Theory proponents.

I'm in a swing state. My vote may well count. I'm voting FOR time... time to prepare more for what is INEVITABLE - the conflict that the LEFT is desperate for... they're SAYING it, out loud. All you have to do is listen.

Sorry to say but time's up, my friend. Agenda 2030 isn't going to slow down because of Trump. In fact, he's done more to help it along than Hillary ever could have. Conservatives would have started shooting if a Democrat Congress pushed through the sovereignty ending USMCA and Hillary signed it. Trump and the GOP Senate does it? Crickets. $3T deficits over a fake pandemic? Crickets. Give it up man. This thing is rolling right along regardless of which bankster puppet is behind the Resolute Desk. You know it and I know it. Pretending you're voting to slow anything down is self-delusion. Voting is actually how they receive the consent of the governed, regardless of the outcome of the vote.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I remember when you weren't a partisan cheerleader and you saw through posts like this for what they were. Man, that seems so long ago. Hard to imagine anyone could revert back. Now you're pushing typical 11th hour campaign bs like it's important or has any bearing whatsoever on what happens after election.

Yes, so do I.

I'm trying not to be a partisan cheerleader...I'd wager I've posted maybe 100 "Pro Trump" cheerleading articles over the year...if that many.

I'm in the oil and gas business. Many others in this forum are as well.

Biden and Harris have both stated unequivocally that they will, on day one, start the process to shut down domestic oil and gas production. Trump has stated just as forcefully that he will not, and will reduce roadblocks to domestic oil and gas production, which he has done.

Just their idle talk is killing my line of work right now, let alone when actually gets put down on paper as enforceable law.

I have been put out business twice before by the fedgov and it's regulatory state, once under Shrub Sr. and once under Clinton.

I don't want to go through that shit again while pushing 60.

That's not to mention the larger picture that indicates that the Marxist left will not hesitate to take this nation down the same road that Chavez did in Venezuela and exile, imprison or outright exterminate the refuseniks. That's you and me.

So, given these circumstances, what would you have me do?

Inaction is not an option.

I'm not trying to convince you to do the same as I am, there's no time or chance of success anyway.

I'm not even asking you to stop throwing philosophical eggs at me, while I'm kicking and a'gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer.

I'm just asking you try and understand, without snark or condescension.

 

[Anti Federalist]

You know, I've been against the idea of voting for years now, for a number of reasons that I don't think are necessary to go into here.

But in this particular election, I think it's foolish to think that there isn't a real distinction to be made. The LEFT has made clear their intentions over the course of the preceding 4 years.

I'm not voting FOR Trump, this year. I'm voting AGAINST the LEFT. Against the Democrat party, against the major, corporate media establishment, against the cultural marxists who WILL become open, political marxists if they're given just a whiff of an opportunity. I'm voting against the utterly chaotic and civilization-destroying Critical Theory proponents.

I'm in a swing state. My vote may well count. I'm voting FOR time... time to prepare more for what is INEVITABLE - the conflict that the LEFT is desperate for... they're SAYING it, out loud. All you have to do is listen.

For twelve years straight I wrote in Ron Paul.

Prior to that, I was all over the place, Harry Browne, Pat Buchanan, Nobody.

I stopped in town the other day just to join a group of Trump sign wavers in the rain.

And I did it for the exact same reasons you just stated...

I have no idea how this is all going to turn out, and it was a difficult choice, but we're doing the right thing.

Hold...

 

[A Son of Liberty]

Because that's so different than every other election? Isn't that what it's turned into, especially since Ron stopped running for President? Not voting FOR something but instead voting against the other thing?



Sorry to say but time's up, my friend. Agenda 2030 isn't going to slow down because of Trump. In fact, he's done more to help it along than Hillary ever could have. Conservatives would have started shooting if a Democrat Congress pushed through the sovereignty ending USMCA and Hillary signed it. Trump and the GOP Senate does it? Crickets. $3T deficits over a fake pandemic? Crickets. Give it up man. This thing is rolling right along regardless of which bankster puppet is behind the Resolute Desk. You know it and I know it. Pretending you're voting to slow anything down is self-delusion.

Yeah. You may be right about that. I'm not going to deny that anything you've said isn't reality, or a real possibility.

I'm not pulling a lever because I KNOW. I'm pulling a lever because I HOPE. And I fully get that ain't much to go on. But it's something.

Voting is actually how they receive the consent of the governed, regardless of the outcome of the vote.

Yeah, I know. I mean, I totally get that.

Defensive voting is a thing. If given the opportunity, a slave SHOULD vote for the overseer he BELIEVES will whip him less. Even if he KNOWS that the entire system is a sham. Even if he KNOWS that participating in the vote is his implicit support of the system. He's not WRONG for trying to be whipped less.

 

[devil21]

Yes, so do I.

I'm trying not to be a partisan cheerleader...I'd wager I've posted maybe 100 "Pro Trump" cheerleading articles over the year...if that many.

I'm in the oil and gas business. Many others in this forum are as well.

Biden and Harris have both stated unequivocally that they will, on day one, start the process to shut down domestic oil and gas production. Trump has stated just as forcefully that he will not, and will reduce roadblocks to domestic oil and gas production, which he has done.

Just their idle talk is killing my line of work right now, let alone when actually gets put down on paper as enforceable law.

I have been put out business twice before by the fedgov and it's regulatory state, once under Shrub Sr. and once under Clinton.

I don't want to go through that shit again while pushing 60.

That's not to mention the larger picture that indicates that the Marxist left will not hesitate to take this nation down the same road that Chavez did in Venezuela and exile, imprison or outright exterminate the refuseniks. That's you and me.

So, given these circumstances, what would you have me do?

Inaction is not an option.

I'm not trying to convince you to do the same as I am, there's no time or chance of success anyway.

I'm not even asking you to stop throwing philosophical eggs at me, while I'm kicking and a'gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer.

I'm just asking you try and understand, without snark or condescension.

I'm sorry to hear that it's been affecting you personally. There's a lot more I'd like to write but I'll refrain. I'll only say that even the Saudis are dumping huge amounts of cash into electric vehicle development and diversifying heavily away from oil and gas. If they're doing that, it's a pretty safe bet that the outcome is already decided.

 

[A Son of Liberty]

Yes, so do I.

I'm trying not to be a partisan cheerleader...I'd wager I've posted maybe 100 "Pro Trump" cheerleading articles over the year...if that many.

I'm in the oil and gas business. Many others in this forum are as well.

Biden and Harris have both stated unequivocally that they will, on day one, start the process to shut down domestic oil and gas production. Trump has stated just as forcefully that he will not, and will reduce roadblocks to domestic oil and gas production, which he has done.

Just their idle talk is killing my line of work right now, let alone when actually gets put down on paper as enforceable law.

I have been put out business twice before by the fedgov and it's regulatory state, once under Shrub Sr. and once under Clinton.

I don't want to go through that $#@! again while pushing 60.

That's not to mention the larger picture that indicates that the Marxist left will not hesitate to take this nation down the same road that Chavez did in Venezuela and exile, imprison or outright exterminate the refuseniks. That's you and me.

So, given these circumstances, what would you have me do?

Inaction is not an option.

I'm not trying to convince you to do the same as I am, there's no time or chance of success anyway.

I'm not even asking you to stop throwing philosophical eggs at me, while I'm kicking and a'gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer.

I'm just asking you try and understand, without snark or condescension.

For twelve years straight I wrote in Ron Paul.

Prior to that, I was all over the place, Harry Browne, Pat Buchanan, Nobody.

I stopped in town the other day just to join a group of Trump sign wavers in the rain.

And I did it for the exact same reasons you just stated...

I have no idea how this is all going to turn out, and it was a difficult choice, but we're doing the right thing.

Hold...

Brother, I'm with you.

 

[devil21]

Yeah. You may be right about that. I'm not going to deny that anything you've said isn't reality, or a real possibility.

I'm not pulling a lever because I KNOW. I'm pulling a lever because I HOPE. And I fully get that ain't much to go on. But it's something.



Yeah, I know. I mean, I totally get that.

Defensive voting is a thing. If given the opportunity, a slave SHOULD vote for the overseer he BELIEVES will whip him less. Even if he KNOWS that the entire system is a sham. Even if he KNOWS that participating in the vote is his implicit support of the system. He's not WRONG for trying to be whipped less.

Or perhaps the whipping stops when the slaves pack up their shit and leave the plantation? Mentally, if not physically. That is also an option but that is not an option that presented to the slaves by the two slave drivers, so few consider it one. Yes, that is probably as unrealistic a goal as believing that voting makes a difference but we didn't get into this mess overnight and we won't get out of it overnight. And we sure as hell won't get out of it but continuing to participate in choosing which slave driver might whip us a bit less.


To bring my comments full circle, why were there CRICKETS when trillions have been doled out? USMCA signed? And a myriad of other actions that never would have been tolerated under a Clinton administration? Bald-faced lying fake news articles like in the OP has had a lot to do with it. The entirely fake history of the Trump presidency perpetuated...

Well played globalists. Well played indeed.

 

[A Son of Liberty]

Or perhaps the whipping stops when the slaves pack up their $#@! and leave the plantation? Mentally, if not physically. That is also an option but that is not an option that presented to the slaves by the two slave drivers, so few consider it one. Yes, that is probably as unrealistic a goal as believing that voting makes a difference but we didn't get into this mess overnight and we won't get out of it overnight. And we sure as hell won't get out of it but continuing to participate in choosing which slave driver might whip us a bit less.

Yes. 100% agree. But as you allude, a mass refusal isn't going to happen before Tuesday, so...

In every prior election I either voted for Ron or I abstained, refusing to give my consent. I - again - BELIEVE that there is a real distinction in this particular election. I'm more than just willing to accept that my casting a vote is essentially meaningless. I'm more than willing to accept that even if it is meaningful, it may not precipitate the outcoming for which I'm hoping. And I'll be more than happy to admit I was wrong if it doesn't. I'm not suggesting it will. I'm suggesting that it's a step I can take. It takes very little effort, it costs very little, and the upside is to my benefit. The downside is that I give 1/140,000,000 consent to a system I do not condone. Also, every once in a great while I buy a lottery ticket. :shrug:

 

[A Son of Liberty]

I'm sorry to hear that it's been affecting you personally. There's a lot more I'd like to write but I'll refrain. I'll only say that even the Saudis are dumping huge amounts of cash into electric vehicle development and diversifying heavily away from oil and gas. If they're doing that, it's a pretty safe bet that the outcome is already decided.

To whatever extent the Saudis will move against oil and gas, it will be because the global establishment is immovably against it, and the Saudis are not so stupid as to believe that their little sand castle stands a chance against their hegemony.

What the global establishment hates is NOT oil and gas. They don't believe that it meaningfully "contributes to global climate change". What they hate is the free market. They HATE that people believe they have the right to decide for themselves, and that markets are the resultant, not the progenitor.

 

[eleganz]

You know, I've been against the idea of voting for years now, for a number of reasons that I don't think are necessary to go into here.

But in this particular election, I think it's foolish to think that there isn't a real distinction to be made. The LEFT has made clear their intentions over the course of the preceding 4 years.

I'm not voting FOR Trump, this year. I'm voting AGAINST the LEFT. Against the Democrat party, against the major, corporate media establishment, against the cultural marxists who WILL become open, political marxists if they're given just a whiff of an opportunity. I'm voting against the utterly chaotic and civilization-destroying Critical Theory proponents.

I'm in a swing state. My vote may well count. I'm voting FOR time... time to prepare more for what is INEVITABLE - the conflict that the LEFT is desperate for... they're SAYING it, out loud. All you have to do is listen.

You're responding to a guy that thinks only he can see a magical script that you can't.

AOC is being set up as the new age Bernie Sanders. They put her on the cover of fashion/youth magazines in $16k suits to glorify her and make socialism sexy.

Meanwhile purist liBROtarians just hide under the covers while pretending to be off grid when they're really just leeching off everything the horrid state has to offer.

This forum right here is literally the last place these guys have any voice or influence and what does it get them? a bright green bar. F'n badass if you ask me.