Biden’s Department of Interior Offers Most Restrictive Offshore Oil Drilling Plan in US history
Both energy industry officials and eco-activists are complaining.
News that the administration doesn’t want much attention over tends to get released On Fridays.
Therefore, it should be no surprise that last Friday, the Biden administration offered up its plan to severely restrict the number of offshore oil and gas lease sales over the next five years. It is also aimed to hinder any energy resource expansion that may be planned by a future administration that actually puts the interest of the American people first.
The Interior Department announced its final drilling plan for offshore oil and gas leasing over the next five years on Friday, setting three further lease sales between 2024 and 2029.
The federal government is required to lease at least 60 million acres for oil and gas exploration as a condition of issuing offshore wind power leases under the provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act.
In the final plan, the department set a lease sale in the Outer Continental Shelf for 2025, with another to follow in 2027 and a third in 2029.
Business leaders and realists are angered about the threat to the country’s economic security under this plan.
“President Biden’s approach to severely limit leasing significantly curtails access to a critical national asset,” Erik Milito, the president of the National Ocean Industries Association, which represents both traditional and renewable offshore energy producers, said in a statement Friday. “The White House simply ignores energy realities by once again limiting U.S. energy production opportunities.”
“With global demand at record levels and continuing to rise, regressive policies will harm Americans of all walks of life by putting upward pressure on prices at the pump, destroying good-paying jobs that form the fabric of Gulf Coast communities, and relinquishing geopolitical advantages of energy production to countries like Russia, Iran and China,” he continued.
Energy industry representatives are pointing out this action’s clear and likely consequences.
The industry’s largest trade group, the American Petroleum Institute, said the limits would weaken the security provided by domestic energy, and potentially further feed inflation. “The Biden administration is choosing failed energy policies that are adding to the pain Americans are feeling at the pump,” the group’s leader Mike Sommers said in a statement.
On the other hand, environmentalists are unhappy that the plans aren’t restrictive enough.
Environmental groups also took issue with the plan, with the ocean conservation groups hitting the administration for allowing drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
“This Five-Year Plan started with President Trump proposing to open nearly all U.S. waters to offshore oil drilling and ends with President Biden’s final plan that is the smallest to date,” Beth Lowell, Oceana’s vice president for the United States, wrote in a statement.
“The footprint of offshore drilling was not expanded, but the dangerous cycle of drilling and spilling must end,” Lowell said.
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Biden showed his insanity (and that of his commie handlers) back during his State of the Union when he ad-libbed:
“We’re going to need oil for at least another decade.”
Gee … a whole decade!!
These lunatics actually think they are going to stop all oil and gas by 2035. They really do. They are total nutcases. Dangerous nutcases.
And most people let Traitor Joe slip this completely insane comment in the State of the Union with nothing but a few moments of “laughter” about it. This is not a laughing matter. A serious person would have picked himself up and walked out at that point – to make a point and to highlight for everyone the completely insane ideas that are motivating those in power, right now.
But … no one did. And I would be that you couldn’t find more than 5% of Americans who have any recollection about that line, at all. And that was really the most significant and telling line of that whole sh*tty speech.
“We’re going to need oil for at least another decade.”
What does he care, he won’t be President even if he is still alive.
Vegas taking bets on biden dying in office.
Thing about off shore is that if we don’t drill, others will, taking our oil. Sure the leases might be in our waters, but we have become so spineless they don’t care, and with directional drill borders don’t matter.
As well as the famous quip “we’ve built the best voter fraud structure ever”. Bedpan tells the truth once in a while.
“America last; China, Iran and the rest of the global rogues’ gallery, first,” is the vile Dhimmi-crats’ wretched credo.
Biden sold SPR to china.
It appears that Biden’s puppet masters do not understand that oil is more than an energy source, it is the basis for a staggering array of other products..
And a national security essential need.
Yup. I wonder what country they work for. We know Joe works for China, Ukraine and Iran.
The interesting thing to me is that the Biden administration has done everything in its power to stymie oil and gas production in the US, but production has increased to record levels despite his best efforts.
Which he then takes credit for.
Note that there is never a congressional vote, only bureaucratic edits that no American citizen approved through the representative branch of government. Considering the amount of leftist bilge containing the word democracy, Democrats avoid actual democratic processes like the plague. Every one of these regulatory usurpers has to be purged, with law-making functions returned to Congress.
These stifling edicts would disappear overnight if Hunter were placed on the boards of all the drilling companies.