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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 5700781" data-attributes="member: 58386">Federal lands belong to everybody. Until there is a decided political consensus for drilling in the  nation's most environmentally sensitive public lands they will remain off limits. Keep in mind there is drilling on lower risk public lands. Trouble is the federal coffers only get a 1/8 royalty. But again oil drillers will go to the areas that are the most promising and have the best potential for high yielding wells and therefore best returns for their shareholder and stakeholder investors.  Face it. The days of cheap oil, cheap electricity, cheap healthcare, cheap car and homeowners insurance etc are over..But, that's free market capitalism. That's the thing you GOP's and MAGA's have always strongly supported. Or at least that's what you people have always claimed to be supporters of.</blockquote>