February 13, 2020
Guests/Topics:
Ray Scott, Senate District 7 Mesa County, responds to an article that appeared in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel on the status of the industry.
Scott explains how schools and other social programs are very reliant on oil and gas tax revenue. Scott added that the state has population disparity issues and that the east was primarily oil and the west is gas.
The interview continues diving into how extracting the resource or locating it isn’t the issue in the marketplace, rather legislation is.
Scott opines on the environmental issues in the state as well as the root of the activism. Other topics include local control working against the locals, using children in political activism and how to get active and support your local community leaders.
Terry Etam, Energy Writer and Expert, reacts to CNBC Mad Money host Jim Cramer’s claim that the oil and gas industry is the new tobacco industry.
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Air Quality Is Improving Every Day, So Breathe A Little Easier, Please!
Breathe a Little Easier is part of our ongoing effort to explain the role that energy has played in improving human living standards over the past two centuries. This project examines trends in air quality in the U.S. in order to push back at the doom-and-gloom narratives that dominate so much of our thinking about energy and the environment today.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, between 1970 and 2017, U.S. gross domestic product increased 262 percent, vehicle miles traveled increased 189 percent, energy consumption increased 59 percent, and U.S. population increased by 44 percent. During the same time period, total emissions of the six principal air pollutants dropped by 73 percent.
Acadiana job outlook evolving as oil and gas establishes ‘new normal’
If you think 2020 might be a banner year for Lafayette area jobs, temper your enthusiasm. That may be up for debate.
Loren C. Scott, professor emeritus in economics at LSU, forecast in a September presentation in Lafayette that the metro area — Acadia, Iberia, Lafayette, St. Martin and Vermilion parishes — might prosper in the short term with 3,200 new jobs in 2020 and 4,000 new jobs in 2021. He said an improved rig count in the Gulf of Mexico, coupled with “solid performances” by seven big local companies, would keep the area on the plus side for Louisiana jobs. One of those companies, Waitr, has since experienced a rocky several months.
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Ray Scott, Senate District 7 Mesa County
Terry Etam, Energy Writer and Expert
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