I have only been mowing my "lawn" every couple of weeks for a long time, partly due to the cost of cutting it. It's not that I worry about the cost as much as I don't see the point of spending all that money. In addition to not cutting is as often, cut it at the top setting on your mower when you do cut it. Believe it or not it will take longer to grow if you leave it longer to begin with. This also has the affect of making the lawn stronger and keeping out weeds better because the energy that would have gone into growing is instead used to make the root system stronger. On top of this the longer lawn and reduced mowing is beneficial to the environment. I may even reduce my mowing to every 3 weeks.
You refuse to believe the facts from someone who actually manages federal lands. On federal leases, permits go with the lease, other than state requirements. They could quit issuing new leases for the next decade and there would be plenty of current federal leases for oil/gas development. 26 million acres is a lot of land cleared for drilling. I manage federal lands in the state that is the second largest oil producing state. There are plenty of drilling activities on federal, state, and private lands. In fact, there are more rigs operating in my state than 5 years ago, because companies are pulling out of more expensive areas to extract oil/gas and moving rigs to the Permian basin where production costs are lower and resources more abundant. Oh, and the Keystone pipeline had nothing at all to do with US production; it was just about moving Canadian low grade oil to the Gulf for export. And I might add that NH isn’t an oil producing area, so why are you supposing to understand the situation on western federal lands?
I live in Texas. Never lived in NH. Spent most of my life west of the Mississippi, including 8 years in Nevada, that is mostly federal lands. I'm a political scientist by training. Your experience in Forestry is laudable, but I think (based on reading the actual statutes) that you have been misinformed. Leases and permits are separate. Permits get renewed every 2 years. I also seriously suggest you research keystone a bit more. It was also supposed to move oil from MT and ND. Even Wiki got that right.
When a State like California says no to more production can it stop Federal Lease Holders?
Well I own a diesel lawn mower, but have listened to the idiots about banning leaf blowers, buy ethanol free gas at a Sinclair station, just went up to 4.59 but keeps all 2 strokes from having to be worked on as well as small trim mowers that don't get much use, no carburetor issues with that fuel, your correct about several things , this president didn't cause this oil spike, the last president caused oil to be exported, we use 180 million barrels a day but produce only 120 million and export about 3 million so we import the difference from over 10 + countries most from Canada and some from Russia, our president is trying to get oil companies to produce more but to no avail, that speaks for itself, greed.Oil companies have years worth of undrilled lease acres. Increasing or shutdown of capacity are decisions made by the oil companies themselves. At any point in time, there are millions of acres of undrilled leases ready to go. The BLM shows 26 million acres of federal lands where leases are issued and much of these acres have no activity due to the business decisions of the lease holder.
I was wrong and you were wrong it was the 2015 Congress that placed a bill to start exporting oil , Republicans controlled the House and Senate and that president threatened to veto that bill, but was trying to pass other legislation through and went along with the bill
Thanks for the information. I thought I remembered it passing along with the 2018 tax bill.
