Posted on 03/19/2022 3:08:32 PM PDT by rktman
With prices rising at the gas pump — and a court order that allows climate change consideration when developing the agency’s policies — President Joe Biden’s Department of the Interior announced on Friday it will resume plans for issuing oil and gas leases on federal land.
Biden had halted any oil and gas development on public land in the early days of his presidency and the issue has been in and out of the courts since. The case is the Louisiana v. Biden, Case No. 22-30087 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth District.
The Biden administration was fighting to include a climate change metric in its leasing decisions, while red state governors sued, claiming lease restrictions on federal land hurt American workers and states’ economies.
No announcement is posted on the Dept. of Interior’s official website as of press time, but Interior spokesperson Melissa Schwartz emailed a statement to press contacts following the court ruling issued earlier this week.
“With this ruling, the department continues its planning for responsible oil and gas development on America’s public lands and waters,” Schwartz said in the statement.
“We have heard directly from [the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)] that the district court ruling caused them to stop progress because they would have had to change the analysis, but now that’s not the case, they can move forward,” Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, said in an email.
The BLM is the entity at Interior that manages federal lands and resources.
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The the out look for November elections must be terrifying.
They can get gas prices lower by November.
Then they go back to their long term plan.
Maybe
But the inflation is spiraling and will still be a huge issue.
It says on public land, but does that mean that private lands are still pumping?
Polling must be very bad.
Get it in writing.
LOL! As if that makes a difference to democommies.
You’d be surprised how many morons still support this idiot and democraps. Just utter fanatical devotion. I debate them all the time on Twitter which is the only reason I have an account. To them Trump is worse than Hitler and democraps are the saviors of humanity. Everything is Trumps fault. Take a look at Rob Reiners Twitter and the comments, it’s 24/7 Trump bashing.........
https://twitter.com/robreiner/status/1504592857180504065
Whatever happens the Dems will claim credit for even though they started this disaster from the start
Too little, too late.
Archie called him Meathead for a reason.
They’ve been “moving forward” for over year now. You can see the results.
“They can get gas prices lower by November.”
The Biden administration can’t get them lower by November with anything they are doing, some other countries will have to “get gas prices lower”.
No mention of laying pipelines to move the gas and oil. Without that, the rest is just a PR exercise.
We will see a lot of lipstick on a pig for the next six months, all of it window dressing.
The problem is obvious: the Feds control energy.
Just print up $2 or $3k for everyone in early October.
Inflation will be solved! /s
Except you can’t get a drilling permit.
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