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Biden Administration Backtracks On Media Reports Signaling Oil, Gas Leasing Resumption
dailycaller.com ^ | 3/21/2022 1227 hrs edt | THOMAS CATENACCI

Posted on 03/21/2022 10:49:09 AM PDT by rktman

The Biden administration backtracked on reports that it is resuming the federal oil and gas leasing program in light of a recent appeals court decision.

On Friday, Reuters reported that the Department of the Interior (DOI), the agency tasked with overseeing the leasing program, was planning to resume the previously-delayed program. But a DOI spokesperson pushed back on the report, saying it overstated the administration’s position that it would begin planning the next steps, not that it had already resumed the program.

“The article overstates our next steps (we did not say we were resuming leasing but instead the planning),” Melissa Schwartz, the Interior spokesperson, told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an email.

Schwartz also shared the department’s full statement given to Reuters, laying out its next steps regarding the oil and gas leasing program. Reuters partially quoted the DOI statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; energy; fjb; gas; leases; lucyfootball; oil
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1 posted on 03/21/2022 10:49:09 AM PDT by rktman
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we did not say we were resuming leasing but instead the planning)


2 posted on 03/21/2022 10:50:28 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To “backtrack” is what the MSM calls a “flip flop” when it’s done by someone they like.


3 posted on 03/21/2022 10:51:27 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: rktman

...and they’ll “plan” forever.


4 posted on 03/21/2022 10:53:03 AM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: rktman

Ok, have it that way. Nov 2022 tic toc tic toc.


5 posted on 03/21/2022 10:53:12 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: rktman

Trump was right again.


6 posted on 03/21/2022 10:53:29 AM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Well, from the post yesterday that is true. They were gonna commence thinking about planning to provide leases. Or something.


7 posted on 03/21/2022 10:54:00 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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“Trump was right again.”

99.3% of the time.


8 posted on 03/21/2022 10:55:47 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE ( ‘When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’)
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To: rktman

FlipFlopper


9 posted on 03/21/2022 10:56:58 AM PDT by Conservat1
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To: PeterPrinciple

5-year planning process to ensure nothing takes place and to remain in compliance with the court order.


10 posted on 03/21/2022 10:57:32 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: PeterPrinciple

These flaming idiots can’t even keep their lies straight.


11 posted on 03/21/2022 10:58:51 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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Stupid people.


12 posted on 03/21/2022 10:59:36 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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Blackrock says "No!"

Just in case anyone wants to know who is behind Bidens disastrous energy policies. So much so that Blackrock has their fund manager for their sustainable green energy fund employed by and working for the Biden Cabinet.

13 posted on 03/21/2022 11:02:49 AM PDT by blackdog (Today's "disinformation" most often turns out to be tomorrow's facts. )
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pushed back on the report, saying it overstated the administration’s position that it would begin planning the next steps, not that it had already resumed the program.


Maybe that is the interesting part. They felt they had to push back on the report. Why?

Normally they would put out their lie and then ignore the situation. Sounds like they had to clarify to the libs their position.

That they can’t hide things should encourage us?


14 posted on 03/21/2022 11:04:24 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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Deliberate.


15 posted on 03/21/2022 11:16:03 AM PDT by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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Biden’s war on oil continues at the pump.


16 posted on 03/21/2022 11:34:17 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: PeterPrinciple

The court already said they must...


17 posted on 03/21/2022 11:36:27 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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The court already said they must...


But not how or when.........................


18 posted on 03/21/2022 11:48:40 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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LOL! With democommies, court ruling mean nothing. Or as rita morono suggests, just say “f ‘em’!


19 posted on 03/21/2022 11:54:19 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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I figured that when this was announced they would lease but not permit. Seen it before.

Lies, smoke and mirrors. Pablum for the sheeple.


20 posted on 03/21/2022 12:13:46 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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