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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j5btoht wrote

Reply to comment by pierogieking412 in My face when I saw this months gas bill. by bearsharkbear3

This is the most infuriating shit. We were promised 10-12 years ago that we'd have nearly free heating gas forever if we just let these companies fuck up our water and air. Now they're selling it all to Shell or compressing it and sending it overseas, and we get the awesome cancer risk with no upsides.

 
They promised us a bunch of good-paying jobs and they all went to road warriors from Texas and Oklahoma.

 
They promised landowners that they'd get lucrative lease agreements and they spun off their pipeline operations and charged themselves fees that they could take out of leaseholder payments.
 
I don't know how many times extractive industries have to shit on us before we figure out that they're all snakes, now and forever.

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WorstTimeCaller t1_j5cakys wrote

And we can’t have a severance tax because it would cut into all of those benefits

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