Now that summer is over we are all grateful for the lower electric bills in our mail box. You may not be aware of this, but next summer you bill will likely be a lot lower. Why? Well because Texas will have to shut down two major power plants because they use coal mined in Texas. This will result in wide spreads blackouts. And so the whole time the power is off to you home’s AC (and the rest of your house) you won’t be billed. Yes, the temperature will likely reach 110 in your house and all the ice cream in the freezer will melt, but you won’t be paying for the higher demand of power that we need here in Texas because the EPA says we don’t need to be using Texas coal to produce power.

You see the all knowing and all seeing OZ… er, I mean the EPA, has said that using that kind of coal is bad. They don’t have any data to support this claim but the EPA has never let that stop them from making up new rules, just ask the Inspector Generals (IG) Office. This month the IG of the EPA cited that the EPA’s conclusions about Global Warming were not based on good science. Pay no attention to the IG behind the curtain.

But the fun and games don’t stop there because you see that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) wants to stop the oil and gas industry from extracting hydrocarbons form the ground here in Texas. Why? Well of course to save lizards. That’s right lizards. You see there is this poorly researched scientific assumption that because two species of lizards has been disappearing that it must be the fault of the oil and gas industry. They came to this conclusion because of a recent study that cited feral hogs and fire ants as the main cause of a decline in the numbers of these two lizards which, by the way, have no economic value. Well of course you don’t understand how those dots are connected you are not a federal bureaucrat. So the only conclusion to come to is that we have to shut down the oil and gas industry in the Permian Basin and the Eagle Ford Shale, two of the most productive areas in Texas. In fact these two areas employ more than 50,000 workers in support of the extraction of clean burning hydrocarbons.

And now you know why the most fearful phrase in the English language is “I’m here from Washington and I’m here to help.”

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