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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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.
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?
Exactly! Someone in the media needs to grow a pair and call this lying SOB out!
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
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.
Notice how there are zero consequences for lying and screwing up. Zero lazy ass government employees will lose their jobs over this.
“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.
Is there anything at all that these bastards fatherless S.O.B.s don't lie about?
Or there is no chance to get it from there to anywhere.
Same tactic biden’s boss did circa 2009. Bush’s fault
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.
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!
then comes all the state permitting...
A Bald-Faced Lie!!!
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.
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