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PREVIEW: #LNG: #KEYSTONE: In conversation with colleague Salena Zito re the White House pause on LNG exports, and what this means to the farmers of PA who lose their $193 million checks for permitting wellheads on their fields. And what it means for the

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 22 March 2024

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PREVIEW: #LNG: #KEYSTONE: In conversation with colleague Salena Zito re the White House pause on LNG exports, and what this means to the farmers of PA who lose their $193 million checks for permitting wellheads on their fields. And what it means for the governor and senators, all of whom are vivid Demorats. More later.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2926905/bidens-lng-export-embargo-hurts-farmers-too/

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Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is John Bachelor speaking to

0:25.0

speaking to colleague Selina Zito of the Washington Examiner in the Wall Street Journal, we look at the decision by the Biden administration to pause export of liquefied natural gas.

0:32.0

How does this connect to the Ag community of Pennsylvania, the

0:36.5

keystone state, the farmers? Farmers get up to nearly $200 million in 2023 for permitting liquefied natural gas wells on their property.

0:49.4

That money will now dry up, report Salina. What is to be done? Salina here reports on how the

0:57.7

major Democratic politicians in Pennsylvania are seeking to reverse or lift this ban.

1:04.8

It's damage to the ag community, it's damage to the 100,000 people employed in Pennsylvania,

1:09.7

the Keystone State.

1:12.2

It's odd. And here Salina Zito, Washington Examiner Wall Street

1:15.8

Journal on the pause in exporting liquefied natural gas to our allies in

1:21.9

Europe among others.

1:24.0

I doubt that it will be lifted and here's why.

1:27.7

Biden has turned a deaf ear to Casey and Federman and Shapiro, all of whom I am told have had words with him about it.

1:40.0

And it is an interesting decision to me because it is clear that he's doing this to shore up his climate change social justice base.

1:59.0

However, that is a very small portion of his base.

2:04.4

You know, this ban impacts a full coalition of voters.

2:10.9

It's not just people in the energy industry. It's not just people whose families, you know, make things that support the energy.

2:22.0

It's not just the barber shops and beauty salons and

2:26.7

widget makers and hotels and diners that you know feed and make the workers and feel better about themselves it's

2:39.6

also farmers and it is it I know that it blows the minds of all of these Democrats and

2:49.0

yet they are he is stubborn, at least until this point, refusing to move on the pause.

2:58.0

More of this later.

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