claim: "oil companies can obtain an acre of public land for less than the price of a big mac."
author: center for western priorities
evidence_1: outdated royalty rates cost taxpayers up to $730 million per year ... oil  companies can obtain an acre of public land for less than the price of a big  mac.
evidence_2: nov 5, 2018 ... even iflands at issue here are open for leasing under the ely rmp, it would be  entirely ... 3 center fix \vcstcrn priorities "a fair share" ("oil companies can  obtain an acre of public land for less than the price of a big mac. the minimum  bid required to obtain public lands at oil and gas auctions stands at ...
evidence_3: apr 17, 2018 ... as president donald trump opens vast swaths of the west to ... on federal lands,  as he singled out "a massive federal land grab" by the obama administration. ...  12 million acres of federal land on the block, more than double what was ....  swooping in to buy leases with no intention of drilling, looking to flip ...
evidence_4: the athabasca oil sands (or tar sands) are large deposits of bitumen or extremely  heavy crude ... together, these oil sand deposits lie under 141,000 square  kilometres ..... market prices, and eventually became bigger than its former parent  company. ..... the alberta government requires companies to restore the land to ...
evidence_5: few texans, however, are aware of the role that public land has played in .... this  gives texas the ownership of lands rich in oil and other resources. .... on land in  coahuila and texas could be had for less than 1 ½ cents an acre with ... acre), a  head of household could obtain title to 4,428 acres of land. ...... jones, billy mac.