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Biden Administration to Halt Atlantic, Pacific Offshore Drilling Despite Energy Crisis

 

The Biden administration announced Friday its plan to eliminate new offshore oil drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

The proposed plan will eliminate all lease sales in those locations, according to the Interior Department while only permitting ten offshore leases in the Gulf of Mexico and one in the Cook Inlet off of the south-central Alaska coast over the course of the next five years.

“From Day One, President Biden and I have made clear our commitment to transition to a clean energy economy,”  said Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Deb Haaland.

In fact, Biden promised in 2019 to end the American oil industry if he was elected.

“I want you to look at my eyes,” Biden said at a stop in New Hampshire during his campaign. “I guarantee you we’re going to end fossil fuels.”

And, at a debate in 2020, he said, “No more drilling including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill period. It ends.”

The proposal comes amid rising gas prices and inflation and calls for increasing oil production as well as President Joe Biden’s commitment to tackling climate change.

It often takes years after a sale is completed for companies to begin drilling. So any new offshore leases are unlikely to have a short-term impact on fuel prices. But, the Biden administration’s failure to sell enough leases over the last 16 months and this new restriction will have an effect on the price of energy for years to come. The longer the restrictive policies continue, the longer and tougher the pain will be.

The DOI last held an offshore oil and gas auction in November, located in the Gulf of Mexico; however, a court order later stopped the sale on the grounds that the administration had failed to properly account for its impact on the climate.

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  1. Biden said when he was campaigning that he was “going to end fossil fuel in America”. Why didn’t anyone listen? Then Biden said he was going to bankrupt Putin with his gas and oil sanctions. But the truth is that while our dollar is crashing, the ruble is rising and Putin is getting richer. The Europeans, who spent decades dismantling their fossil fuel industry with their own “Green New Deal” became totally dependent on Russian gas and oil because, of course, the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow. So you won’t see it reported anywhere but they are STILL buying Russian gas and oil because they can’t survive without it. So we are sending billions, that we don’t have, to Ukraine for a war that we don’t want and didn’t vote for. In the meantime, NATO countries are effectively funding Putin. That’s insane! Consider that as Biden will soon ask for more money to go to Ukraine and all the Democrats and RHINO’s like Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham will waive their Ukrainian flags and shout we must “protect their sovereignty and territorial integrity” while they do nothing about our “territorial integrity” and the millions of illegals crossing our open border along with criminals, cartels, terrorists and the Chinese made fentanyl that literally kills a hundred thousand American citizens every year.

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