Why I put 479 pounds of rice in my car

 

Big Oil is greedy, and they want even more of our public land. That’s why during last week’s Oversight hearing (which I joined from my driveway in Irvine) I used bags of rice to demonstrate how much public land Big Oil is holding onto—and not even using.

There were 479 pounds of rice in the back of my van, and each grain represented just ONE of the 13.9 million publicly owned, unused acres of land leased by Big Oil. That’s equivalent to all of the land in Maryland and New Jersey combined.

Our public land belongs to the American people, not Big Oil. But the oil and gas executives I talked to refuse to support a pause on new public land leases. They already have millions of acres, but they say it’s still not enough.

I’ll keep standing up to Big Oil—the whole industry is bad for our economy and bad for our environment.

Onward,

Katie

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