So when are they going to overturn the fraccing ban and run a Natural Gas pipeline across the State? Heck, they can even tax the Gas and get revenue...

Are these the same civil society groups that conducted "mostly peaceful protests" in LA?

Anyway -

This is exactly why I've stopped watching sports for the most part.  Back when the NFL had a 60 mile blackout radius for televised home games, my friends and I would drive 61 miles to watch the Lions on Monday night.  But it was pure sports.  Now they are just another form of CNN.

Now everything is political or social commentary, immigration news, news about Elon Musk or George Soros,  equity, etc.     It used to be sports was a means to escape all that political nonsense.  Now it has become part of the political nonsense.  I don't care what ex professionals think about ANYTHING, what political party they favor, how a sport befits the tutifuiti people in Zimbabwe.  I want to watch sports, not get editorialized.

About the only sports (that were not motorsports) I have watched in the past decade is watching my granddaughter play pro football with the WFA (Minnesota Vixens). Just ladies playing tackle football. She was the fastest in her High School, until my grandson transferred into the same school (funny having grandkids 1&2 fastest in a High School--you just root for them both!).
He is installing appliances, she is still fast on the field.

In our state, oil and gas are taxed at 11.5% (even flared gas is taxed) as an extraction tax. Frankly, that funds half of the State Budget, and part is set aside in the Legacy Fund for the future. No, we don't operate at a deficit.

However wind (roughly 1/3 of the electricity generated here, and we generate roughly twice what we use and sell the surplus to Canada, Minnesota, Montana, and South Dakota) is a little different. Hmmm. Valuable agricultural land is used by the industry, and since statehood, agriculture has been the breadwinner (no pun intended).

Oil and Gas companies are required to construct their drilling/production locations in such a way as to ensure environmental safguards, but also have to post a reclamation bond to cover costs of plugging and abandoning a well (or wells, in the case of a multiwell pad) and the reclamation of the surface location.

It turns out here, the same requirements, including a reclamation bond are placed on wind energy facilities, though the foundations need only be removed to a depth of four feet below the surface. (Some far future geologist/paleontologist is going to have fun with that).
Is there an energy production tax?

Well, yes. According to Google AI:

The Wind Generation Tax (WGT) applies to wind turbines completed after December 31, 2014, or those operating for over 20 years. This tax replaces property taxes and consists of two parts: $2.50 per kilowatt of nameplate capacity and $. per kilowatt-hour generated.

So yes, Virginia, there is a tax, and anywhere that does not gain revenue and have similar protections in place is, well, dumb.

Vett them, rigorously. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Direct link to the article that does the torching...

https://irrationalfear.substack.com/p/the-7-trillion-lie

In fact, most so-called subsidies in the U.S. are simply standard tax deductions applied to all industries, such as write-offs for equipment depreciation or manufacturing costs.