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Federal Government Cancels Offshore Drilling Sales in Alaska and Gulf of Mexico
Posted on 5/18/22 at 10:56 am
Posted on 5/18/22 at 10:56 am
Louisiana and 12 other states have challenged the order, and there is at least one case making its way through the federal appellate court in New Orleans.
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Biden Cancels Offshore Oil Lease Sales in Gulf Coast, Alaska
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By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it is canceling three oil and gas lease sales scheduled in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Alaska, removing millions of acres from possible drilling as U.S. gas prices reach record highs.
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The decision likely means the Biden administration will not hold a lease sale for offshore drilling this year and comes as Interior appears set to let a mandatory five-year plan for offshore drilling expire next month.
“Unfortunately, this is becoming a pattern — the administration talks about the need for more supply and acts to restrict it,'' said Frank Macchiarola, senior vice president of the American Petroleum Institute, the top lobbying group for the oil and gas industry.
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The lease cancellations come as gas prices have surged to a record $4.40 a gallon amid the war in Ukraine and other disruptions that have pushed prices $1.40 a gallon higher than a year ago. Consumer prices jumped 8.3% last month from a year ago, the government said Wednesday.
A federal appeals court in New Orleans, meanwhile, is considering a challenge to a moratorium on new federal leasing that Biden imposed soon after taking office in January 2021. Biden said the administration needed to consider the effect of new drilling on climate change and conduct proper environmental reviews.
Louisiana and 12 other states challenged Biden’s order, saying laws passed in response to the 1970s oil crisis require lease sales on federal lands and waters.
The Biden administration failed to “grapple with prior analyses” of the planned sales to give a valid reason for postponing or canceling them, Louisiana Deputy Solicitor General Joseph Scott St. John told a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel this week.
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The state challenge to Biden’s leasing order has not yet gone to trial, but a federal judge blocked the order in a preliminary injunction last year, writing that since federal law does not state the president can suspend oil lease sales, only Congress can do so.
After U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty ruled for the states, the Interior Department held an offshore lease sale last fall, which a federal judge in Washington, D.C. later blocked.
The administration has appealed Doughty's ruling, but has scheduled onshore lease sales next month in eight mostly Western states. However, the administration scaled back the amount of land offered for drilling and raised royalty rates by 50%.
This post was edited on 5/18/22 at 10:57 am
Posted on 5/18/22 at 10:59 am to frequent flyer
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the administration talks about the need for more supply and acts to restrict it
Bingo! Hello, socialism.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 10:59 am to frequent flyer
It doesn't matter because gas prices aren't high. And if they were, it would be a good thing.
- the media, probably
- the media, probably
This post was edited on 5/18/22 at 10:59 am
Posted on 5/18/22 at 10:59 am to frequent flyer
Just remember Biden voters when you're filling up with that 5 to 6 dollar a gallon gas this summer...........
You did that! Congrats?
You did that! Congrats?
Posted on 5/18/22 at 11:00 am to frequent flyer
What a disaster of an administration. On a personal high note, my wife's portion of 1280 acres of Odessa area royalty checks will continue to print.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 11:01 am to FredBear
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Just remember Biden voters when you're filling up with that 5 to 6 dollar a gallon gas this summer...........
You did that! Congrats?
They don’t care
Posted on 5/18/22 at 11:01 am to frequent flyer
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The Biden administration
They are running this show like they aren't at all concerned about re-election.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 11:01 am to frequent flyer
its about time for LA, TX and AK to say frick it..... Companies go drill!
Posted on 5/18/22 at 11:02 am to frequent flyer
Nothing excites a liberal like destroying America
Posted on 5/18/22 at 11:02 am to dewster
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They are running this show like they aren't at all concerned about re-election.
Why would they be when you can just spin up another Covid scare, everyone goes to mail in ballots, and then you just repeat what worked in 2020?
Posted on 5/18/22 at 11:03 am to dewster
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they aren't at all concerned about re-election.
Stole one, steal another
Posted on 5/18/22 at 11:05 am to dewster
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They are running this show like they aren't at all concerned about re-election.
The "big guy" isn't running again.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 11:05 am to CarRamrod
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its about time for LA, TX and AK to say frick it..... Companies go drill!
Yeah, this federal power experiment has failed, time for the states to buck these stuffed shirt shits in Washington and take back power, and dare the feds to do something about it.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 11:05 am to Centinel
Oil revenues = 2nd highest fed annual revenues collected (IRS is #1). Gonna make that WAS #2.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 11:06 am to Chad504boy
They didn't steal it, because they didn't need to.
You get mail-in ballot on the table such that you mail everyone a ballot whether they request one or not, then send out "Voting Assistants" who helpfully fill out the ballot for you, maybe slip you some cash, you sign, and away they go to the next door.
It's called ballot harvesting. And even though it's illegal, almost all democrat run large population centers let it happen.
You get mail-in ballot on the table such that you mail everyone a ballot whether they request one or not, then send out "Voting Assistants" who helpfully fill out the ballot for you, maybe slip you some cash, you sign, and away they go to the next door.
It's called ballot harvesting. And even though it's illegal, almost all democrat run large population centers let it happen.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 11:10 am to frequent flyer
inb4 Spleen, whatiknowsofar, mmmbeer, or Oweo deflect blame on the O&G corporations by pointing out their 1Q2022 profits.
This post was edited on 5/18/22 at 11:13 am
Posted on 5/18/22 at 11:10 am to frequent flyer
They are purposely trying to wreck the economy and the United States
Posted on 5/18/22 at 11:12 am to CarRamrod
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ts about time for LA, TX and AK to say frick it..... Companies
This!!! frick the government
Posted on 5/18/22 at 11:14 am to frequent flyer
First off I am pretty sure that none of these new leases would affect gas prices one way or another for years as I am sure that it will take that long to tap the sources and put in the infrastructure to get it to the refinery.
Second, I am glad they are upping the lease royalties- that is helping American taxpayers versus GLOBAL corporations making more of the profits off American natural resources.
Third, no one is more thrilled by gas prices than the oil/gas industry itself- no matter what is available to them, they will titrate that supply as minutely as they can just to make the maximum profits they can because well, Capitalism. The moment the cost of gas shifts enough people's activities that the amount of gas sold is lowering too much, then they will amazingly enough find new supply- they always do.
We are all living in a time of huge social and economic changes that will likely become more evident to historians a hundred years into the future and these eras are NEVER a comfortable place to live- we just scored the lucky hit.
Second, I am glad they are upping the lease royalties- that is helping American taxpayers versus GLOBAL corporations making more of the profits off American natural resources.
Third, no one is more thrilled by gas prices than the oil/gas industry itself- no matter what is available to them, they will titrate that supply as minutely as they can just to make the maximum profits they can because well, Capitalism. The moment the cost of gas shifts enough people's activities that the amount of gas sold is lowering too much, then they will amazingly enough find new supply- they always do.
We are all living in a time of huge social and economic changes that will likely become more evident to historians a hundred years into the future and these eras are NEVER a comfortable place to live- we just scored the lucky hit.
This post was edited on 5/18/22 at 11:16 am
Posted on 5/18/22 at 11:15 am to dewster
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They are running this show like they aren't at all concerned about re-election.
They know the election is already rigged in their favor.
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