In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.
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If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.
Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands or in federal waters.
We must not risk defunding environmental conservation programs, which is why Congress should reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund to preserve our natural resources.
Our traditional oil and gas philosophy does not have conservation as a crucial component, and we can ill afford to continue to spend billions of dollars which are not reflected in the improved human capital of our country.
Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.
The majority of ground in the U.S. is owned by the federal government, and right now, very little of it is accessible to anybody that is trying to produce oil and gas, and we need to be opening that up.
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
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