reversing the usa's energy momentum is:

- revoking leases to drill for oil and gas on federal lands and in federal waters

- revoking leases for mining

- halt permits to export LNG

- halting pipelines that would have imported 830k bbl/day of canadian oil to the usa

the consequences are two-fold, the hit on usa consumers and the political headaches of relying on other nations for energy.

At the end of the 2020 fiscal year, right before President Biden took office, a total of 6,234 applications for permit to drill were pending approval. Recent media reports claim that in the last three years, the Biden administration has approved 9,522 permits to drill – which would make up the permit backlog, plus some.

Still, according to the latest BLM data, there are still 5,366 permits currently pending approval before the agency. In part due to the massive slowdown in leasing under the Biden administration, BLM had received a paltry 452 new permit applications year-to-date as of October 2023 – indicating the chilling effect that the bureaucratic slog can have on the industry.

Reminder: one of Biden’s first moves upon taking office was pausing lease sales, resulting in the number of leases for development on federal land slowing down significantly during the Biden administration compared to previous administrations. Delays in sales, ongoing appeals, and settlements with activist groups further contribute to the decline. New Mexico, North Dakota and Colorado have been among the states with lease sales postponed or canceled resulting in a significant economic impact. This impact has affected local and state revenues and budgeting, particularly for these states heavily reliant on oil and gas revenue. Meanwhile, the Biden administration also settled with activist groups and agreed to re-evaluate the National Environmental Policy Act reviews for nearly all of the leases issued under the Trump administration in Wyoming and a significant number across Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Montana. As the Wyoming Tribune Eagle explains back in 2022 when the news broke:

“None of the leases have been vacated, but their future is uncertain. The Department of the Interior now has to reevaluate and retroactively justify more than two dozen lease sales. If it decides it can’t, or its reasoning doesn’t satisfy the court, the sales could be reversed and any existing permits revoked.”

This ongoing NEPA review has been used as rationale for the Bureau of Land Management failing to authorize Wyoming’s November 2020 leases from the state’s last sale under the Trump administration. For perspective, that’s a nearly $7 million sale that’s been in limbo for more than three years.

The Biden administration’s pace of oil and gas leasing isn’t just slow – it’s the slowest in half a century. A Wall Street Journal analysis of federal acres leased for oil and gas production over the past 50 years revealed that the Biden administration leased a historic low of 0.13 million acres during its first 19 months compared to the 4.4 million acres auctioned for lease during the first year and a half of the Trump presidency.

Federal judge blocks Biden’s pause on LNG export permits
The decision to stay the LNG pause upends one of Joe Biden’s major policy nods to climate-focused activists who have accused the president of not doing enough to mitigate planet-warming emissions.

Joe might be the worst POTUS we have had.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

George W. Bush was the worst president we ever had, but in support of your argument, Joe Biden was with him every step of the way on invading Iraq.

Respectfully disagree.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

President Joe Biden has approved nearly 50 percent more oil and gas drilling permits for wells on federal land since taking office than former President Donald Trump did in his first three years, according to newly released data from the Interior Department.

But Biden has not trumpeted the permit data, and climate activists have criticized the administration for failing to halt new fossil fuel production on federal lands as Biden promised during the 2020 campaign. Those activists have pointed to approval of the Willow oil project in Alaska, as well as the expansion of natural gas exports [/i]

At the end of the 2020 fiscal year, right before President Biden took office, a total of 6,234 applications for permit to drill were pending approval. Recent media reports claim that in the last three years, the Biden administration has approved 9,522 permits to drill – which would make up the permit backlog, plus some.

Still, according to the latest BLM data, there are still 5,366 permits currently pending approval before the agency. In part due to the massive slowdown in leasing under the Biden administration, BLM had received a paltry 452 new permit applications year-to-date as of October 2023 – indicating the chilling effect that the bureaucratic slog can have on the industry.

The Biden administration’s pace of oil and gas leasing isn’t just slow – it’s the slowest in half a century. A Wall Street Journal analysis of federal acres leased for oil and gas production over the past 50 years revealed that the Biden administration leased a historic low of 0.13 million acres during its first 19 months compared to the 4.4 million acres auctioned for lease during the first year and a half of the Trump presidency.

While oil output is at a record high, we could be producing even more but for the president’s “whole of government” effort to chill investment. The year before President Biden was inaugurated, the Energy Information Administration was forecasting oil output in 2023 of 14 million barrels a day. Actual output came in at 1.1 million barrels per day below that forecast.

Oil production hit a record in 2023 because more and more of our oil and natural gas production is occurring on private and state lands, where developers don’t need permission from Washington to drill. In 2005, about 68 percent of our oil and 62 percent of our gas came from private and state lands. Today it’s risen to roughly 75 percent and 90 percent, respectively.

When it comes to production on federal lands, however, we’re living on borrowed time. We’ve been able to maintain output thanks to production from wells drilled on leases issued before Biden became president. While the administration has issued drilling permits to existing leaseholders — as required by law — that hasn’t stopped it from slow walking these permits.

George W. Bush was the worst president we ever had, but in support of your argument, Joe Biden was with him every step of the way on invading Iraq.

George W. Bush was the worst president we ever had, but in support of your argument, Joe Biden was with him every step of the way on invading Iraq.

Obama: Joe Biden is like a brother to me. I love him so much that I backed another candidate in 2016, 2020, and now in 2024.

"this week" still had donna brazile talking about biden still being president. the whole roundtable was talking about how biden could still maintain running.

It's disgusting that at 10 am Sunday the Democrat establishment all thought it needed to be an open process with multiple candidates but by 10 pm EVERYONE now said that was impossible and Harris should be the only candidate.

This should be offensive to voters.

by this morning, everyone is praising Harris for locking down all the "important" constituencies: specifically delegates and money. No mention of the voters.

There is no such thing as a liberal any more. There are people who hold leftist political positions but there are no liberals.

It's disgusting that at 10 am Sunday the Democrat establishment all thought it needed to be an open process with multiple candidates but by 10 pm EVERYONE now said that was impossible and Harris should be the only candidate.

This should be offensive to voters.

by this morning, everyone is praising Harris for locking down all the "important" constituencies: specifically delegates and money. No mention of the voters.

There is no such thing as a liberal any more. There are people who hold leftist political positions but there are no liberals.

reversing the usa's energy momentum is:

- revoking leases to drill for oil and gas on federal lands and in federal waters

- revoking leases for mining

- halt permits to export LNG

- halting pipelines that would have imported 830k bbl/day (keystone, alone) of canadian oil to the usa

the consequences are two-fold, the hit on usa consumers and the political headaches of relying on other nations for energy.

They are giving Harris a week to improve her poll numbers but they built in a system where she could be easily replaced too based on how they are doing the new nomination process.

First Zuckerberg. Now dolphin. Everyone is voting for Trump, yet somehow Kamala Harris will get 90 million votes.

They are giving Harris a week to improve her poll numbers but they built in a system where she could be easily replaced too based on how they are doing the new nomination process.

She raised $30M in like 2 hours. Obama and Friends may not love her, but the elite media and donors can't get enough. The latter is creating an environment where it would be fatal to skip her.

She raised $30M in like 2 hours. Obama and Friends may not love her, but the elite media and donors can't get enough. The latter is creating an environment where it would be fatal to skip her.

It depends on where her poll numbers are by next Monday. If she is polling equal or worse than Biden they'll say "She can't beat Trump" and find a way to move on. That's why they set the rules to let another candidate win the nomination when they do the delegate poll and it really wouldn't even be that hard.

They had to give her the first chance but just like people suddenly decided that Joe Biden couldn't beat Trump they'll decide that Kamala Harris can't beat Trump if her numbers show that she is likely to lose.

They are giving Harris a week to improve her poll numbers but they built in a system where she could be easily replaced too based on how they are doing the new nomination process.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

After what you have seen in the last day, it is naive to think voters matter.

The money is behind her. She is the candidate. Fin.

After what you have seen in the last day, it is naive to think voters matter.

The money is behind her. She is the candidate. Fin.