The Biden administration is mulling the prospect of banning new American offshore oil and natural gas drilling projects as fuel prices continue to spike, The New York Times reported Thursday.
The Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, working closely with the White House to shape policy, will release its drafted five-year plan for new oil and gas drilling leases in federal waters to Congress by June 30, according to The New York Times, citing people familiar with the matter. [bold, links added]
The administration is likely to stop new offshore drilling projects in the Atlantic and the Pacific, and is considering whether to end leasing in the Arctic and Gulf of Mexico.
Gas prices have soared over the past several months, causing the president to be heavily criticized for his energy policy.
In response to this crisis, Biden recently called for Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for three months and urged oil companies to increase their production of fuel.
The decision to potentially limit offshore drilling comes at a time in which climate activists continue to pressure the Biden administration into embracing more environmentally friendly energy solutions.
On June 6, Biden took further action to commit to a ‘clean energy future’ in order to tackle climate change and ‘lower energy costs’ through the use of the Defense Production Act.
Biden previously used the act to accelerate the domestic production of solar panels to further his green energy policies.
Jeffrey Eshelman, Chief Operating Officer of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, told The Daily Caller News Foundation that a ban would only further restrict the supply of fuel, driving up prices and hurting Americans nationwide as roughly “20 percent of the nation’s natural gas and oil production comes from America’s offshore boundaries.”
Eshelman pushed back on Biden’s call for more oil drilling and refining as a ban on offshore drilling would reflect his “true policies and progressive Green agenda.”
Eshelman further said that it is an understatement to say that the Biden administration is “out-of-touch with the nation’s pressing issues.”
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Hey Al Gore, give it a rest, no one is interested in your links. If there ever a time that climate change was discussed like a normal scientific topic some would take notice. The government paid scientists produced what was required of them. When was there ever a proper series of debates on the matter? Why was anyone who held a different point of view labeled as a “denier”? An insult borne our of people who denied the holocaust. Science was always about debate, never the fear mongering, the lies and the money of this episode. We also notice no opposition to the so called science where the citizens are bombarded by false predictions, bogus time lines and crazy “tipping points”. Hardly meets scientific standards.
Has Boffy the Slayer come here to shore up support for green energy in its darkest hour? People with a brain must have their doubts and regrets over the trillions of dollars/euros/pounds they’ve invested in intermittent energy. Putin and OPEC have us over a barrel because wind and solar need back – up . I’ll give Germany some credit for NOT dynamiting their coal-fired generators, like Ontario has.
Here’s something factual to try and wrap your head round
“Authors veteran meteorologists Joe D’Aleo and Anthony Watts” See my comments elsewhere about D’Aleo;s credentials. Anthony Watts dropped out of uni and has no academic or professional standing.
“The majority of weather stations used by NOAA to detect climate change temperature signal have been compromised by encroachment of artificial surfaces like concrete, asphalt, and heat sources like air conditioner exhausts.” Hmmm, but that is exactly what causes the temperature to rise. If the temperature in an urban heat island is rising over time, it is rising.
It is interesting that his fellow go to climate “expert” denier Goddard and others claim that moving stations is cheating!
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/wattergate-tamino-debunks-just-plain-wrong-anthony-watts-2b2114479c2b/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/debunking-another-climate_b_244903
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/watts-up-with-that/
https://billmoyers.com/2014/05/16/eight-pseudo-scientific-climate-claims-debunked-by-real-scientists/
comments are closed on all the older “proofs”, so let’s look at Jonathan DuHamel’s “facts”. He starts of with the usual denier dog whistle” Remember back in the 1970s, climate scientists and media were predicting a return to an “ice age.”” Yawn, only deniers believe that, grown ups know the truth.
Typical denier inanity continues with “In fact, an Australian group did a tongue-in-cheek exercise of comparing the historic price rise of a first-class U.S. postage stamp with temperature.” Well, yes, but then postage stamps are not a known greenhouse gas, are they. but then deniers need to grasp at such childish “proofs” don’t they as they have nothing else.
Then the usual “The outputs from computer models diverge widely from observational evidence” which is another lie, as he should know as the “proof” he uses is satellite data not corrected for orbital delay etc. as promulgated by Christy and Spencer. When corrected the graph tells a different story.
He then goes on to use local weather to disprove global climate trends.
Then : “According to temperature change observations in the satellite era this pattern did not occur.” Once again citing uncorrected satellite data.
So yet another Climate Change Dispatch “climate expert” is proved to be an ignoramus and non scientist.
So, the article is about offshore drilling. Since fossil fuels provide EIGHTY percent of our nations current total primary energy, all the climate “alarmists” have to do is answer one basic question: “What clean, scalable, affordable & sustainable alternative do you recommend to REPLACE fossil fuels?” It won’t be wind & solar and most likely, you won’t get access to enough raw materials (i.e. rare earths, cobalt, copper, lithium, etc.) to complete the touted renewables, EV & battery revolution that is continually HYPED by this Administration. Quibble over the “science” of climate all you want. When you no longer have reliable electricity, you won’t be weighing in ANYWHERE on the internet…
Opposing offshore Oil Rigs while supporting Wind Turbines of the coast the hypocricy is thicker then Pea Soup Fog
Brandon The Tool continues his attempt to sacrifice the American people on the altar of green energy. This move plays directly into the clutches of our enemies China and Russia. It also kneels to the demands of the Globalist–to create a powerless, socialist America.
Just think Russell, if you deniers had accepted facts and realities when you should have decades ago we would now have plenty of nuclear, wind and solar energy, but ooohhhh nooo, you knew better, and look where we are.
“Eshelman further said that it is an understatement to say that the Biden administration is “out-of-touch with the the fossil fuel industries’ demands to continue being massively subsidised, make massive profits and destroy the environment”
“our enemies China” is building 150 nuclear power plants more than the rest of the world has built in the past 35. The USA ha 92.
The PRC built wind farms with a total capacity of almost 100GW in 2020, a rise of nearly 60% on the previous year, which is more than the rest of world combined. The US built just 16.5GW.Spo yes, your enemies are laughing at your gullibility and stupidity.
Once upon a time the USA was known for innovation and modernity, it is now known for its Luddites and backward thinking.
You “science” people do not want nuclear either, so you can’t with any honesty (which the Green agenda does without) include that in the equation.