Big Democrat government really, really doesn’t want a viable American economy. Not when the jobs are of the “wrong” kind and threaten to diminish the welfare and food stamp rolls that keep busy bureaucrats shuffling paper.
“The Obama Administration may have finally found a way to stop the boom in U.S. energy production. Delaying approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, maintaining export limits and discouraging refinery construction haven’t stopped a revolution that will soon make the United States the world’s largest producer of crude oil.
[So] “Washington may add a record 757 new species to the endangered list by 2018. Included on the roster of potentially protected critters are two range birds—the greater sage grouse and the lesser prairie chicken—that could severely restrict energy production across a broad swath of the American West.”
“The prairie chicken sits atop Texas’s Permian Basin oil bonanza, and the sage grouse is near the Bakken Shale in North Dakota. An Interior Department report describes the impact on the sage grouse of oil and gas operations as ‘universally negative and typically severe,’ even though modern horizontal drilling leaves a much smaller footprint than in the past.”
This new assault on fossil fuels could be more than just the usual unholy feds-Greens alliance of like-minded Democrats. You could also suspect that somebody in Washington has their hand out to the Saudis.
UPDATE: Some jobs, however, really are way beyond reproach. And some things that don’t even involve endangered species—even on your own eight-acre property—aren’t.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
” You could also suspect that somebody in Washington has their hand out to the Saudis.” You better believe it!
Sposin’ if we all went out and killed a few of them damn birds? How could they protect an endangered species that is extinct?
Heh. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what happens in the Permian and the Bakken Shale.
Concur. A sure-fire way to accelerate the extinction process if people have to choose between a bird and a viable living.
A better choice is to declare them all varmints and put a bounty on their capture, then everyone would go about raising them.
Best yet would be to find the home addresses of the EPA and Greenie bigwigs, publicize them on the Net and invite all comers to round up a few hundred of the birds and release them at the addresses. Rinse, repeat.
Maybe you could relocate the lesser prairie chicken to some place in Washington DC or nearby?