Pennsylvania

JPZenger

(6,819 posts) Mon Aug 24, 2015, 10:55 AM Aug 2015

Chart highlights PA.'s lack of a severance tax compared to other states

http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=22612

PA. has an impact fee, which generates much less than a typical severance tax. That impact fee has not been increasing, even though gas production has been increasing.

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Chart highlights PA.'s lack of a severance tax compared to other states (Original Post) JPZenger Aug 2015 OP

When the drillers have extracted all that PA has, Curmudgeoness Aug 2015 #1

Wow! I just looked at the chart! blue neen Aug 2015 #2

Curmudgeoness

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1. When the drillers have extracted all that PA has,

Reply to JPZenger (Original post)

Mon Aug 24, 2015, 02:49 PM

Aug 2015

and have left the state, it is unfortunate that these save legislators will not be here to deal with the aftermath. After giving away all the state's gas/oil assets, we will be left with a major environmental disaster to deal with----and we will have gotten nothing for it.

This is like owning a mansion, and letting everyone come in and party there, but not paying you anything for it's use. By the time they leave, you will have nothing and no way to fix it up.

blue neen

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2. Wow! I just looked at the chart!

Reply to JPZenger (Original post)

Tue Aug 25, 2015, 02:18 PM

Aug 2015

It's infuriating what these drillers are getting away with in PA. We knew it was bad, but this is ridiculous. Every citizen of this state should that chart!

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