Posted on 05/11/2022 8:41:46 PM PDT by bitt
The Interior Department will not move forward with planned oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Cook Inlet, it announced Wednesday night.
A spokesperson for the department confirmed the Cook Inlet lease sale would not proceed due to insufficient industry interest. Meanwhile, the planned sale of two leases, lease 259 and lease 261, in the Gulf of Mexico will not proceed due to contradictory court rulings on the leases, the spokesperson confirmed.
Shortly after taking office, President Biden signed an executive order freezing all new oil and gas leasing on federal lands. Last summer, Judge James Cain, a Trump appointee, struck down the ruling, prompting the Biden administration to appeal.
Meanwhile, in January, the Washington, D.C., District Court invalidated another Gulf of Mexico lease sold by the federal government, lease 257. The administration is not appealing the January ruling, although it affects a separate lease from the ones named by the Interior spokesperson.
The Alaska lease would have covered more than 1 million acres. The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management previously canceled lease sales in the area in 2006, 2008 and 2010, also citing lack of interest from industry at the time.
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He’s just trying to make the oil companies RICH, by driving up the price of oil.
Brian Cates:
“Joe Biden and his administration are literally doing every damn thing they think of to get the American people to hate them. They are exploring NEW WAYS to get people who don’t even pay attention to politics at all to HATE their guts.
And believe me, it’s WORKING.
The louder Biden whines this is really Putin or Trump’s fault, the more pissed off normal Americans are going to get. “
In the years 2006 8 ect. Oil wasn’t $110 per barrel.
Who needs oil and gas when the US Government has MONEY TO BURN! 🔥
IOWs Biden is the one who is price gouging.
If the GOP has any cajones they file articles of impeachment first thing tomorrow morning. I know it won’t pass congressional vote, but this is a red line and a deliberate criminal action by the Biden presidency.
Biden is Putin’s puppet. Prove me wrong.
We’re living on cereal and prayers to afford the gas to get my PTSD dog/best friend in the world to his chemo treatments, to try and keep him here as long as possible.
God forgive me, but I hope “karma” is watching these demon skinwalkers, for the sake of my innocent dog.
Why purchase a lease when Biden would never let you develop it.
Biden is everyone’s puppet. Starting with “Dr.” Jill.
Gas went up another 10 cents today to $4.79- we are now higher than when obama was destroying the nation
Or Brandon cancels your high-bid lease purchase.
He could suspend the federal tax on gas.
“If the GOP has any cajones they file articles of impeachment first thing tomorrow morning. “
Too busy rubber stampanother FORTY BILLION for godforsaken Ukraine, while NOT building the wall.
And rank and file Rs (including HERE) don’t care enough to call their congressman and demand McCarthy resign as Minority Leader.
Which means IF they win the house, McCarthy becomes Majority Leader and prevents any serious vengeance.
Yes, vengeance is what I want. No more of thos “just get along” crap. Burn the bridges, salt the earth. Put a million dems in jail.
That was little red Lyinghood go to response when asked about Jim Crow Joe Biden Castro’s handling of the energy crisis is they have plenty of leases but what good is a lease when the President is telling you to not produce any more oil & gas, telling banks not to lend them any money for oil and gas exploration, and that the country will be off of oil and gas by 2035 while shutting down any new drilling because of the Communist green deal. Why Republicans are not driving this point home every day shows they are with him on energy. DNC=GOP both headed to the same a Progressive Communist state one is Bullet train and the other is at 55mph but both go to the same place.
More inflation by design.
Bkmk
Exactly. Or the woke bankers won’t lend you money to develop it.
No, no, no. You’ve got it all wrong...
Biden is ZELENSKY’S puppet. Dontcha know that!!?? blublublublub
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