Lizard? What lizard? I don’t see any…oh, hang on…(bang!) I don’t see any lizard.

What’s the best way to become endangered? Endanger Texas’ oil industry:

The Dunes Sagebrush Lizard, also known as the Sand Dune Lizard, inhabits the Permian Basin, one of America’s top energy producing regions. It contains more than 20 of the nation’s top 100 oil fields and, in the counties identified with lizard habitat, is keeping an estimated 27,000 jobs intact.

Despite the White House’s laser focus on jobs, the administration has its sights on putting these lizards on the Endangered Species List — a move which would severely limit oil production and kill area jobs in order to make the Permian Basin a protected habitat for the lizard.

Not to mention: what’ll that do to domestic oil production?

Betcha the White House changes their minds. Next year is an election year, after all.