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The federal government said the sand lizard is on the verge of extinction, and is expected to place it on the endangered species list soon.
If the species makes the list, its 800,000 acre habitat in the shinnery oak sand dune communities of southeastern New Mexico and southwestern Texas would receive protected status. That habitat happens to be right in the heart of Texas oil country.
"If the lizard is put on the endangered species list, then [rigs] would [be] shutdown," Leslyn Wallace, a land manager at RSP Permian, told ABC News. That would cost many Texans their jobs.
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This is obviously a plot by Obama to make gasoline prices higher.
Lizard vs. Big Oil. HA HA HA! @ you, Big Oil. I'm endangered.
you think this is funny, what this radical administration and his crony environmentalists are doing?
Think about what they plan to do - destroy an economy over a lizard no one has seen, destroy jobs to further their radical oil-free agenda.
This is disgusting and criminal.
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About 63,000 Americans work in the oil and gas well industry as of September 2009, the most recent period available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages program. Most of those jobs are in Texas.
New species of lizards, frogs, birds etc... are created every day. This offers a simple method for all the EPA to ram thru their ideological agenda, all they need to do is make one of these critters an endangered species.... and wham'o no more oil exploration, wonderful.!
The federal government said the sand lizard is on the verge of extinction, and is expected to place it on the endangered species list soon.
If the species makes the list, its 800,000 acre habitat in the shinnery oak sand dune communities of southeastern New Mexico and southwestern Texas would receive protected status. That habitat happens to be right in the heart of Texas oil country.
"If the lizard is put on the endangered species list, then [rigs] would [be] shutdown," Leslyn Wallace, a land manager at RSP Permian, told ABC News. That would cost many Texans their jobs.
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This is obviously a plot by Obama to make gasoline prices higher.
Nevermind the people that depend on those rigs for jobs...or the fact that it will cost all of us in higher gas prices.
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