Posted on 09/05/2021 8:18:00 AM PDT by Libloather
Aug 31 (Reuters) - The Biden administration announced plans on Tuesday to open millions of acres for oil and gas exploration as the White House sought to comply with a court order requiring it to resume lease auctions.
The move, which includes some 80 million acres of water in the Gulf of Mexico along with potentially hundreds of thousands more onshore, represents a setback for Democratic President Joe Biden's plans to fight climate change, which included a campaign vow to end new federal oil and gas leasing.
Biden paused drilling auctions after taking office in January pending an analysis of their impacts on the environment and value to taxpayers. That review is ongoing, officials have said.
In June, however, a federal judge in Louisiana ordered a resumption of auctions, saying the government was required by law to offer acreage to the oil and gas industry.
The U.S. Interior Department on Tuesday said it would offer almost all available, unleased blocks in a more than 90 million acre area in the Gulf of Mexico. The sale could ultimately result in production of up to 1.1 billion barrels of crude oil and 4.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to a sale document posted online.
The sale is roughly the same size as offshore sales held by the Trump administration, which downplayed the threats from global warming and sought to maximize domestic fossil fuel production.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Federal judge blocks Biden's ban on leases for drilling on public lands
The check must have cleared.
Will this be another Lucy and the football escapade ?
LOL!
We were better off when the Democrats thought “offshore drilling” meant sex in a boat. Anybody else remember that?
The Biden administration announced plans...
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Maybe the real plan is to pretend to comply with the judge’s order and put off the auctions.
Benedict Biden: THAT’S HIS NAME! Destroying America: THAT’S HIS GAME!!
The Federal Court’s order it. Biden’s ban was illegal
And yes I understand it's an auction, but who gets to be there?
They need chips. Guess there’s a shortage. Weird huh. Are gas prices dropping like a stone yet?
Alabama Senator Howell Heflin, the real life Foghorn G. Leghorn referring to the esteemed Senator from Mass.
Remember: It’s only evil when Trump did it.
That was a damn funny joke- I wish I could come up with stuff that fast!
[background- there was a photo circulating Congress of Ted Kennedy screwing a young girl in a boat, and one Senator, upon seeing the photo, remarked “I guess he’s changed his position on offshore drilling”]
“Are gas prices dropping like a stone yet?”
Energy prices are set by futures contracts months in advance. Most of the gas you are buying today was priced months ago. If this wasn’t the system, energy pricing would constantly jump all over the place, making it impossible for businesses to plan ahead.
“We were better off when the Democrats thought “offshore drilling” meant sex in a boat. Anybody else remember that?”
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I do. And after having had to move to Canada, I learned that a true Canadian is someone who can do it in a canoe. Without the canoe tipping over. LOL.
“Climate change” = the earth’s climate has been changing for millennia, but a few opportunists found a way to cash in on it by trying to fool the rest of us in to believing they just discovered it and it’s our fault.
It should be noted that Hurricane Ida’s remnants tore through the Northeast on the SAME DAY as this article came out.
A coincidence, I don’t think so. It’s OBVIOUS to me that Biden’s reversal on drilling created the right climate conditions for the disaster they just went through.
(this is how I would troll the left on this topic)
Look for the angle....the left ALWAYS he’s an angle.
And it’s never about loving America either.
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