Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, labeled the bill “a climate suicide pact” noting: “The new leasing required in this bill will fan the flames of the climate disasters torching our country.”
So that’s basically $369 billion free money for bourgeoisie and blocks large scale renewable development until fossil barons recieve nonexistentially huge area of land?
US politics: there isn’t any hidden agenda, it’s all just as stupid and corrupt as it looks.
This always bugs me with (right wing) conspiracy theories. They are all so convinced that every person at the top is in on some mysterious plot, like lizard people, drinking blood, aliens, whatever while reality is that they just want more money and more power. It’s super boring.
tl;dr Manchin’s bill mandates the leasing of millions of acres of public land and coastal water for oil and gas, and subsidizes businesses, house owners, and luxury electric car buyers
