U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'
by Jimmc414 on 4/1/2026, 1:18:51 AM
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/30/nx-s1-5745926/endangered-species-committee-hegseth-security
Comments
by: 0xbadcafebee
Of the 13 billion barrels of oil the US produces every day, 1.5 billion (15%) comes from the gulf. Despite this being more than enough oil (we are a net-exporter of oil), we import crude oil because our refineries need a different type of crude. The extra 15% of oil we are killing the environment over is for making a profit to export to other nations. It is not for national security.
4/1/2026, 2:58:51 AM
by: 0xbadcafebee
2028: <i>"To be secure as a nation we need to stamp out all dissent against the government and require all citizens to swear unyielding loyalty to the President."</i>
4/1/2026, 2:50:18 AM
by: alanwreath
Wasn’t diversifying US energy sources also a national security issue? And wind energy was set aside because, wait for it, they killed animals. Birds to be specific.
4/1/2026, 2:15:38 AM
by: arjie
The thing says they can now dispose of trash and do loud things in the Gulf of Mexico (America haha). But what does that actually get us?<p>Googling and LLMing around it allows normal sea operations in the Gulf so drilling is possible etc. Interesting. So they’re going to try to get more oil out of there?<p>Can’t say I trust their competence very much here. It’s more likely to be a carve out for a friend than anything else and I’m pretty pro deregulation in general.
4/1/2026, 2:18:16 AM
by: gpi
They called the committee god squad?
4/1/2026, 3:39:04 AM
by: SilverElfin
Note that they also increased the limit on Ethanol. Now, E15 is legal (instead of E10), again in the interest of “national security”.<p><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-feds-plan-to-start-diluting-gasoline-this-may-explained" rel="nofollow">https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-feds-plan-to-start-dilutin...</a>
4/1/2026, 3:26:24 AM
by: whalesalad
I always thought Trump was such a joke. Completely non-threatening, just a big personality who kept popping up here and there. I even bought a MAGA hat back in the summer before the election explicitly because I thought it was hysterical he was even running, and knew he would lose. I thought the whole thing was a gag, a joke, just like Bloomberg. It didn't even cross my mind that someone so woefully inadequate for the position, so abrasive, so criminal, so disgusting -- could ever get elected to the presidency. In the grand scheme of the universe, he was a nobody. His name would have died with him.<p>Boy was I wrong. His name will be studied for decades to come in all the worst ways.
4/1/2026, 2:08:08 AM
by: crooked-v
Oppositional defiant disorder on a cultural scale. Liberals want to protect animals and shift to use of green energy; therefore the fossil fuel industry must be promoted at all cost (even when they don't want to be, as with Trump forcing obsolete coal plants to remain open) and endangered animals must be killed off.
4/1/2026, 1:55:51 AM
by: mrcwinn
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4/1/2026, 1:46:56 AM
by: crimshawz
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4/1/2026, 1:59:08 AM
by: nba456_
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4/1/2026, 1:58:45 AM
by: dboreham
Wingardium Leviosa!
4/1/2026, 2:42:41 AM
by: Mistletoe
Don’t say US. They don’t speak for us all. Only 49.8% of voters. Of which I hope a significant portion have seen the error of their ways come midterms and the next election.<p>Every day is a new embarrassment law or action like this for America until then. I’ve never felt lower about America in my lifetime. The hope I had, the pride I felt in America, is gone, chunk by chunk, piece by piece, every day.
4/1/2026, 1:54:48 AM
by: cynicalsecurity
In current circumstances, this is a smart move.
4/1/2026, 2:40:47 AM
by: ZunarJ5
"Definitive of what capitalism is, this separation severely limits the scope of the political. Devolving vast aspects of social life to the rule of “the market” (in reality, to large corporations), it declares them off-limits to democratic decision-making, collective action, and public control. Its very structure, therefore, deprives us of the ability to decide collectively exactly what and how much we want to produce, on what energic basis and through what kinds of social relations. It deprives us, too, of the capacity to determine how we want to use the social surplus we collectively produce; how we want to relate to nature and to future generations; how we want to organize the work of social reproduction and its relation to that of production. Capitalism, in sum, is fundamentally anti-democratic. Even in the best-case scenario, democracy in a capitalist society must perforce be limited and weak."<p><a href="https://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/publications/centerpiece/fall2018/transcript_jodidi11-5-2018" rel="nofollow">https://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/publications/centerpiece/fall2...</a>
4/1/2026, 1:51:30 AM