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The stated goal, according to the legislators proposing this, is to "ensure the stability" of the oil and gas industry.

Humankind's ability to reach new heights of stupidity never ceases to amaze me.

Don't worry, at this rate there is a point where the height of stupidity will fall back to zero, in good part caused by the height of stupidity reached in the previous decades.

This a case where I would support to elect ChatGPT as next Governor of Wyoming...

I'm not a big ChatGPT fan, and I agree. Other improvements would include me, my neighbor, my neighbor's toddler, or my neighbor's cat.

It's a hilarious and performative fall from grace from those who idolize free markets, say the government should not "pick winners", and rail against the nanny state.

Or rather, they correctly determined that their opponents were totalitarians who fully intend to use their support for liberty to destroy them, and are acting accordingly.

This is kind of like finding someone who supports non-violence, physically choking him, and then sneering at him for going against his principles when he tries to fight back.

Maybe try listening to and understanding people instead of sneering at them.

Lithium, cobalt and other related metals don’t come from the sky, entire ecosystems (mostly from the 3rd world) are destroyed so that those metals can make their way into batteries for EVs.

Accusing the oil industry for destroying the world while cheering for EVs reminds me of that meme with two Spider-Man characters pointing at each other.

The difference with burnables is that those materials can be reused indefinitely once you put them out of the ground.

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