Natural Gas Tax ends
ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) — President Donald Trump signed the Congressional Review Act (CRA) repeal of the Biden administration’s natural gas tax.
That means methane fees on oil and natural gas production that were put in place by the Biden administration will no longer be issued.
The repeal was championed by Congressman August Pfluger, who says the natural gas tax would hurt many energy producers in the Permian Basin and had the potential to raise energy prices across the country.
Railroad Commissioner Wayne said the tax would have been the hardest on small “mom and pop” operators.
Pfluger said in a statement after the signing, “I was honored to witness President Trump sign my monumental legislation into law to deliver on the mandate to remove burdensome regulations in the energy industry and unleash American energy. This legislation repeals the tax President Biden imposed on every single consumer in this country and protects the hardworking men and women in the Permian Basin who have delivered affordable, reliable energy every day despite being assaulted by the Biden administration for four years. I owed it to my constituents who elected me to fight for them and get this legislation across the finish line. This is only the beginning of my mission to restore American energy dominance, and I thank President Trump for his action on this.”
Christian applauded the repeal, saying that the Permian Basin has reduced its Methane emissions.
Christian said in a statement “Last year, Biden’s own EPA said the quiet part out loud that the industry is already mitigating methane emissions, revealing that the true motive behind the tax all along was to squeeze the life out of the oil and gas industry. Radical environmentalists love to pick and choose ‘science’ that justifies their ‘sky is falling’ narrative, which is that the world is ending and fossil fuels are to blame. But this couldn’t be further from the truth, just like they like to ignore the fact that EPA regulated emissions are down 78% in the last fifty years.”
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