Report: Top Biden Officials Furious Over Admin Resuming Oil and Gas Leasing
We know top officials in Biden’s administration work hard not to implement policies.
Well, I’m not totally shocked that people within President Joe Biden’s administration want to kill all uses of fossil fuels.
Fox News reported that several emails from 2021 show top officials openly lashing out at Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s announcement that the administration would resume oil and gas leasing.
Haaland’s decision responded to a federal court struck down “Biden’s moratorium on leasing issued during his first week in office.”
On Aug. 16, 2021, Interior Department (DOI) Deputy Assistant Secretary Steven Feldgus forwarded a press release – according to the emails obtained by watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust and shared with Fox News Digital – from Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., the then-chairman of the Natural Resources Committee, to Nada Wolff Culver, Laura Daniel-Davis and Amanda Lefton, three fellow senior DOI officials overseeing key energy policy.
“Holding more lease sales under today’s outdated standards is economically wasteful and environmentally destructive, and everyone not sitting in a fossil fuel boardroom knows it,” Grijalva said in a statement included in the release.
Grijalva also said that Haaland could pause the leases while the DOI reviewed the oil and gas program:
“That’s an excellent response,” wrote Culver, the principal deputy director of the DOI’s Bureau of Land Management, in response to Feldgus’ email with Grijalva’s release, blasting Haaland’s actions.
“It sure is,” Daniel-Davis, the DOI’s principal deputy secretary for land and minerals management, added 10 minutes later.
And Lefton – who at the time was the director of the DOI’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management but has since left the administration for a green energy consulting firm – simply wrote, “Yes,” joining in on the other officials’ praise of Grijalva’s statement.
The courts killed the policy in August 2022.
The three ladies used to work for left-wing environmental groups. Those include “the Wilderness Society, National Wildlife Federation and the Nature Conservancy, which advocate for policies that would significantly curb domestic fossil fuel production.”
All of these views go against the public and common sense. Yeah, one Democrat screamed loud when Haaland resumed oil and gas leasing.
People on both sides grew angry when the Interior Department ended oil and gas leases in Alaska.
Native Americans in New Mexico exploded when the department banned drilling near indigenous sites for 20 years.
The oil and gas programs in those areas bring money and jobs to the communities. Yes, trickle-down economics is a real thing.
Oh, yeah. Don’t forget the war on appliances.
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Patience, this is all just temporary. It will go away right after the election and we’ll be back on our way to $6.00+ gas.
I just read about a treehugger group that wanted to mandate EVs for all but also wanted to ban the mining of the elements required to make the batteries!
The idiocy is epic.
Mandate EVs, but ban mining for rare earth minerals.
Ban oil, but continue to buy clothing made of petroleum byproducts.
Have climate conferences to reduce emissions, but have more than 300 private jets and limousine convoys to the conference.
Ban plastics, but pass “free healthcare for all” when most medical supplies are made from, wait for it, … petroleum byproducts.
Ban clothing made from petroleum byproducts, but also ban clothing from animals.
Many of these people are so ignorant that they don’t realize they will never change the essentials, but only succeed in slowing growth, enriching rent seekers and immiserating the working poor.
Raul Grijalva occupies a safe sinecure seat, thanks to Hispanic immigration. You would think a guy this batshit crazy would be challengeable. He isn’t.
This is taxpayers paid American Marxism at work
Laws of physics do not apply to leftist true-believers. If they deem a new reality of physical contradictions in their head, it shall be so. It’s kinda like Doublethink, but much, much more dumb.
Increasing our oil and gas production hurts our enemies.
Refusing to increase our oil and gas production provides “aid and comfort to our enemies”!