The Utes of Utah are on the warpath. The tribe produces 45,000 barrels of oil per day and around 900 million cubic feet of gas. Without even consulting with them, Joe Biden signed a moratorium on permits to extract oil and gas from “public lands”. The public lands in question in this case are tribal properties and provide the Utes with a good living. Under federal law the Ute reservation is also a separate country, and the moratorium, according to the Utes, is an attack on their sovereignty.
This is now the second country that Biden has attacked within minutes of ...