ragincajun03

quote:

---

I just wish they'd stop raping kids on campus.

---

And covering it up.

In a just world, Pedo State would maybe just be restarting their football program.

Every Monday is the update, baw. Unless I’m on vacation.

HOWEVER, since you asked, National average for diesel and E85 are both down from the previous day for the second day in a row.

quote:

---

Couldn't they have just played their game and waved their magic wand and made prices stay steady or shoot back up when demand cratered?

---

Shh…quiet baw.

quote:

---

Gulf of America

---

Department of Interior’s paperwork that utilizes “Gulf of America” for its oil & gas paperwork and such, so yes, I use the term as well. It’s part of legal business these days.

quote:

---

quote:
If that means nationalizing idle assets that these companies are sitting on and refusing to use to alleviate shortages, so be it.


Excuse you

---

We love it when government confiscates assets! :nana:

quote:

---

State senators Rick Edmonds and Blake Miguez – the highest-profile candidates for a vacant Baton Rouge-based congressional seat – have earned a reputation as solid conservatives.

Both have a 100% anti-abortion voting record from Louisiana Right to Life during their years in the state Legislature. Both score at least 90% from the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry. Both score 100% from the National Federation of Independent Business. Both have the endorsement of the Louisiana Republican Party.

But a Washington, D.C.-based group, Club for Growth, has just launched a million-dollar attack ad against Edmonds that says he “lies,” is a “sellout” and is guilty of “betrayal” for his position on three bills over the past five years.

Club for Growth has endorsed Miguez – even though he voted with Edmonds on two of the three bills. Both were tax measures signed into law by Gov. Jeff Landry.

Edmonds is crying foul.

“Club for Growth is spending big dollars to distort my conservative voting record,” Edmonds said in a statement. “Their bogus ad is an attack on our conservative legislature and governor’s efforts to reform the state’s outdated tax code, to give the largest tax cut in Louisiana history, and to bring billions in historic investments to the State of Louisiana, including SpaceX, Venture Global, Meta and Hyundai.”

Edmonds added, “Club for Growth wouldn’t know the truth, because, like Blake Miguez, they are not from here and they don’t care about our people.”

Edmonds has been attacking Miguez for living in Erath, near New Iberia and outside the 6th District. Miguez notes that he studied in Baton Rouge and currently owns a house in the district.

---

quote:

---

The Club for Growth ad highlighted a statement by Edmonds from 2016 where, then a state House member, he said, “I would not raise their taxes in order to avoid cutting the size of government.”

Edmonds also signed the “Taxpayer Protection Pledge” from Americans for Tax Reform “to oppose and vote against tax hikes.”

---

quote:

---

In 2024, Edmonds and Miguez both voted for a bill sought by Landry that raised the state sales tax but more than offset that by reducing individual and corporate income taxes. Only one Republican legislator, state Rep. Beryl Amedee of Gray, voted against the measure, House Bill 10.

Edmonds’ vote led Club for Growth to say in the ad, “he lied, and we paid.”

The ad also said Edmonds voted to give “sweetheart tax deals for woke Big Tech companies” – a reference to legislation in 2024 that authorized Landry to give big tax breaks to Meta for its $50 billion data center now under construction in Richland Parish. Miguez also voted for that measure, House Bill 827.

---

quote:

---

Miguez did not vote on Edmonds’ 2021 measure, House Bill 456.

---

quote:

---

Club for Growth did not respond to a request on why it is bashing Edmonds for supporting measures also backed by Miguez. Club for Growth calls itself “the leading free-enterprise advocacy group in the nation.” It issues endorsements after having candidates fill out a lengthy questionnaire.

---

LINK

I guess this is what happens when you get a national group trying to insert itself into Louisiana politics without first being informed on actual voting records.

:lol:

quote:

---

Who shut down the Keystone pipeline?

---

It was the Keystone XL (Extension), but point taken there. Biden was an idiot for it. Fortunately, some other not as political hot potato pipelines have been constructed to help.

quote:

---

Who shut down the off shore drilling?

---

No one? The Biden Administration stupidly restricted lease sales, but permits were approved and wells were drilled in the Gulf of America.

quote:

---

Who shut down drilling on Federal Land?

---

Again, no one. Yes, an idiotic 60 day moratorium on new projects on Federal Lands was placed once Biden was sworn into office, but the U.S. still hit record production numbers during his administration. I can tell you oil & gas activity was still hot and heavy on Federal Lands in New Mexico.

quote:

---

Shortly after Trump made his suggestion Tuesday, Mike Sommers, chief executive of the American Petroleum Institute, the industry’s top lobby, issued a statement condemning the move. He said restricting U.S. exports “would only compound the problem” of rising diesel costs. API also issued a press release on the dangers of an export ban.

“Restricting U.S. diesel exports would wreak havoc on fuel markets at home and abroad, destabilize refinery operations and deepen a global refining crisis already putting upward pressure on U.S. prices,” the group said.

---

quote:

---

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth, Phillips 66 CEO Mark Lashier and other senior executives started calling their contacts in the administration to push back on the idea of a ban, according to people close to the situation. The executives have different relationships with different members of the administration and they made their discontent known.

ExxonMobil and Valero are among the other companies involved in the effort, according to people aware of the interactions. The industry has also been able to rely on Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Louisiana Republicans.

The full-throated offense comes as the industry sees an existential threat to its business. Oil-and-gas producers sell a large chunk of their product to refiners, who then turn it into fuel and export it. Bottling up diesel production risks congesting the whole energy chain—and could cost the industry billions of dollars.

---

quote:

---

Oil lobbies and executives have been gearing up for a potential ban on energy exports since the beginning of the Iran war. They first anticipated restrictions on crude exports. In the end, it is diesel, whose price has exploded, that has become a target of the administration.

On Tuesday night, after U.S. oil executives relayed their fears to Trump officials, Energy Secretary Chris Wright called the CEOs of multiple U.S. oil companies and conveyed he favored a measure that would fall short of an export ban while satisfying Trump’s desire to lower diesel prices, according to people close to the industry.

---

quote:

---

“The Trump administration, including Secretary Wright, continue to work closely together as they consider a variety of options to help lower energy costs for the American people,” a spokesman for the Energy Department said. “Ultimately, President Trump will make the final decisions.”

The industry doesn’t expect a ban to be imminent and still hopes to kill the idea. It is urging the administration to relax authorization requirements for Jones Act waivers, which allow fuel to be transported between U.S. ports. It is hoping Trump can push China to churn out and export more fuel, and it is encouraging Congress to implement a fuel-tax holiday. The federal tax is 18.4 cents on a gallon of gasoline and 24.4 cents on diesel.

Executives have also raised the possibility of adjusting fuel-blending requirements under the U.S. Renewable Fuels Standard that some estimate could lower gasoline prices by 40 cents a gallon. But that is a political impossibility, they said, given that reducing the required amount of ethanol in fuel could wreak havoc on core constituencies in Iowa and other Midwestern states whose economies lean heavily on corn.

---

quote:

---

The industry believes Bessent doesn’t fully support banning exports. Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum have both publicly opposed a ban.

---

LINK

This is good news.

We don't want to get to a point of where prices come down because of demand destruction or a global recession. Something has to give.

Bob Gibson and his starter peers would also pitch a shite ton of innings compared to starters these days. So maybe they were as good comparatively with today's top starters (nutrition and training has progress for all athletes), but they would get worn down during the games at some point.

It's like everyone throwing from the mound today is fresh and able to have top quality on every pitch.

quote:

---

looks like big oil called and told the administration how it's gonna be

---

You got damn right we did. :USA:

Good to know the President listens to Secretary Wright. It’s so nice to have a Secretary of Energy who actually knows what they’re supposed to be in charge of, as opposed to that idiot Jennifer Granholm who Potato Biden chose.