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Originally Posted by Matt-ADX
Mark you are better than this click bait crap. Wyoming is one of the biggest states for Oil production in the US and is aggressively growing more and more. Of course it's not progressive thinking of him in general scheme of things, but his job is to look out for this citizens of his state, so obviously this is in their best interest. Don't generalize Republican senators as a whole because oil rich states might want to protect themselves despite progress.
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No, he is not working in the best interest of his state. The oil industry is dying. Pretty soon everyone is going to have electric cars being powered by a solar grid. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. Pretty soon Wyoming will lose that income stream, along with the jobs. It will be very similar to what's happened to the coal industry. It will be devastating for states that produce a lot of oil.
This Senator is trying to help his state "right now" but isn't thinking twenty or fifty years down the road.
All of the oil companies are the same. The oil companies needs to stop thinking of themselves as "oil producing" companies and more of "companies that produce power for automobiles". And that is going to be solar power. Here in California new houses are being sold with solar power. Eventually our solar houses will be powering our electric cars. It's extremely cost effective (I haven't paid for power in over a year since I got solar because I produce more power than I use and sell it back to the power company) and it's obviously much better for the environment.
Instead of encouraging solar he is attempting to block it by taxing it. Eventually the oil industry will die, and all of those people will be working for solar companies. His residents will be enjoying free power and no longer have to pay for gasoline - which will only encourage more people to spend money.... They will save money by not having to pay for power, and road trips - vacations - will cost less because they don't have to spend money on gas.