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Biden admin quietly admits White House's 9,000 unused oil permits talking point is wrong
Fox News ^ | 02-27-2023 | Thomas Catenacci | Fox News

Posted on 02/27/2023 11:20:19 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

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Alaska leaders demand Biden administration 'not kill' oil drilling project The Biden administration quietly updated a federal database showing how many unused oil and gas drilling permits it has approved, reducing the number by more than 2,000.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) revised the current number of approved applications for permits to drill (APD) — which oil and gas companies are required to file once they identify a deposit on a lease that can be tapped — down from an estimated 9,000 to less than 6,700. The BLM, a subagency of the Department of the Interior (DOI), blamed the revision on a Trump-era technical change that it hadn't properly accounted for.

"As of February 2023, companies have over 6,600 approved and unused drilling permits available on federal lands," the BLM said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "This number has been updated to account for a reporting discrepancy resulting from a transition to a new database in mid-2020."

The change suggests that President Biden and administration officials had overstated the extent to which oil and gas companies have neglected producing on approved permits amid the global energy crisis last year.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: admits; baldfacedlie; biden; bidenadm; bidenvoters; dementiajoe; drilling; energy; oil; oilpermits; permits
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To: Red Badger

The big picture is with huge sums of business money on the line, being told gas powered vehicles will be banned on a certain date means the risk of short term investment and certainly of long term would not be wise. So , gee, look, oil producers are discouraged from investing.


21 posted on 02/27/2023 12:03:35 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Carriage Hill

How do they keep their stories straight? Biden says his economic plan is working and we’ve avoided a recession because of it. So how can Trump, after two years ruin FJBs agenda?


22 posted on 02/27/2023 12:14:37 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: Red Badger

Exactly! Someone in the media needs to grow a pair and call this lying SOB out!


23 posted on 02/27/2023 12:18:04 PM PST by econjack
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To: Red Badger

No I think they are unused because the government needs a whole crap load of money and they raised royalties that the government would get out of it and nobody’s really interested in putting out a bunch of money just to give the government way more profit than they should get


24 posted on 02/27/2023 12:18:10 PM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: frank ballenger

Oil producers don’t want to commit to a long term project when they know the feds will pull the rug out from under them. Also, the green commies are pressuring banks to not make loans to oil producers.


25 posted on 02/27/2023 12:20:33 PM PST by Texas resident (Who is running our country?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Notice how there are zero consequences for lying and screwing up. Zero lazy ass government employees will lose their jobs over this.


26 posted on 02/27/2023 12:21:57 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: griswold3

“How do they keep their stories straight?”

Good liars can do that, and they are.

We’re in a recession, for the past 2yrs, and a depression is coming this year.


27 posted on 02/27/2023 12:33:18 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is there anything at all that these bastards fatherless S.O.B.s don't lie about?


28 posted on 02/27/2023 12:41:30 PM PST by Iron Munro ( Michael Byrd: "Well, Somebody had to do it - Babbitt wasn't gonna' shoot herself!")
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To: Red Badger

Or there is no chance to get it from there to anywhere.


29 posted on 02/27/2023 1:21:28 PM PST by pas
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To: The Antiyuppie

Same tactic biden’s boss did circa 2009. Bush’s fault


30 posted on 02/27/2023 1:28:21 PM PST by SPDSHDW (Ya’ll knew he was installed via fraud, and chose to do nothing. Enjoy the roller coaster ride.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Lots of good info posted in the comments, in this thread.

Why invest in exploring a lease, getting a permit, fighting the lawsuits from the left, drilling and building infrastructure when you can't maximize profit by fracking and Traitor Joe constantly says that he is going use the power of the fed gov to destroy the oil / gas companies?

They'll just wait 2 years and if we have a fair election PDJT will be back in the White House.

31 posted on 02/27/2023 1:35:33 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Orange Man Bad Syndrome (OMBS)

Therefore:

“If we can tie Trump to it, even to the 64th degree, it’s Trump’s fault! No, really, it is! We swear! (double fingers crossed behind back) The Biden team’s standard reply to anything terrible or with bad optics that they’ve done. Really, I swear!


32 posted on 02/27/2023 2:56:10 PM PST by blu (FJB!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

then comes all the state permitting...


33 posted on 02/27/2023 3:01:15 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Wrong they say? Wrong? I think most people would call that ...

A Bald-Faced Lie!!!

34 posted on 02/27/2023 5:42:35 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: Eagles6; All
Lots of good info posted in the comments, in this thread.

Yes, there is!

My thanks to you and all the other FReepers who so concisely laid bare the truth that Biden and his DemonRat administration hope never becomes common knowledge.

35 posted on 02/27/2023 5:55:45 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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