Posted on 03/11/2022 12:34:15 PM PST by NoLibZone
Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, Republican politicians, conservative pundits and fossil fuel industry leaders have accused President Biden of weakening the U.S.’s economic power against Russia by reducing oil and gas production.
Last week, for example, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said, “Joe Biden has given up the best defense we had against [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s evil vision for the world — energy independence.”
But a data dashboard unveiled Wednesday by the Center for Western Priorities shows that the opposite is true.
The federal government has been issuing oil and gas drilling permits more willingly than it did during President Donald Trump’s first three years in office, and it could be issuing even more if the oil and gas industry weren’t leaving many current leases undeveloped.
Right now, the industry is sitting on 9,173 approved but unused drilling permits on federal and tribal lands.
Despite Biden’s stated desire to combat climate change by reducing American dependence on fossil fuels that cause global warming, his administration has readily approved oil and gas drilling permit applications.
“The Interior Department, the Bureau of Land Management, under both Biden and Trump, essentially operates as a rubber stamp,” said Jesse Prentice-Dunn, policy director for the Center for Western Priorities at a data presentation on Wednesday afternoon.
In fiscal year 2021, 98 percent of drilling permit applications were approved. So far this year, 96 percent of permit applications have been approved. During fiscal year 2020, the last year of the Trump administration, the approval rate was 94 percent. In terms of raw numbers, more drilling permits were approved during Biden’s first year in office than in any of Trump’s first three years.
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So far this year, 96 percent of permit applications have been approved. During fiscal year 2020, the last year of the Trump administration, the approval rate was 94 percent.
In terms of raw numbers, more drilling permits were approved during Biden’s first year in office than in any of Trump’s first three years.
How many miles per permit does the average car get?
What is the total number? 94% of 3000 is more than 98% of 1000.
R iiiiiiiii G H T.
And most of those permits are worthless.
Right now, the industry is sitting on 9,173 approved but unused drilling permits on federal and tribal lands.
How many other rules regulation paperwork is stopping it?
Slight of hand, not fully committed. Think of what could be done with removal of regulation.
If only it was that simple...
It’s not. Production is up too, but not nearly as much as it could be.
Math is racist.
Yeah, for worthless land that contains no oil.
CWP is a Democrat front group full of Liberals and careers RATS.
Gas still expensive as f*** under Biden; getting worse by the day with no end in sight, data shows.
How many times is the regime going to trot out an irrelevant data point to try to counter things people can plainly see with their own eyes and experience every day? I can’t wait to see the explained about why wheat is cheaper in Ukraine than it is in America by the summer.
What good is a permit to drill if the fascist fedgov puts miles of red tape in place to prevent running pipelines that take the crude from well to refinery? Biden and his fascist cronies lie as a matter of policy.
“In 2019, oil production reached the highest point in history.”
17,045,000 barrels of oil per day
https://www.statista.com/statistics/265181/us-oil-production-in-barrels-per-day-since-1998/
“U.S. crude oil production is expected to fall by 160,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2021 to 11.12 million bpd, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a monthly report on Tuesday, a smaller decline than its previous forecast for a drop of 210,000 bpd.”
So last year that was 5,925,000 bpd less than under Trump. We pumped 1.5 times, roughly, more oil in 2019 than in 2021. How is that an increase under Biden?
Diesel in Ulysses Kansas jut hit $5.00 / gal.
Total oil production in the US is down 11% since Trump left office, so please give us another reason we why should believe anything the commies tell us.
Yeah,
and
U.S. gasoline prices have decreased under Biden, data shows
Quite deceptive. The drillers have already stated that they bought up all the leases they could as they were concerned about what happens next year.
The drillers aren’t idiots. Screw them over time and time again, and eventually they stop dancing to your tunes.
Shouldn’t they be bragging about winning their war on oil and fracking?
Permitting may have “increased”, but merely bearing a permit does not assure that there will be oil found within the permit area, nor does the lease document affect in any way the number of supplementary restrictions and compliance demands in regards to all kinds of environmental concerns, hiring requirements, audits on the financial capability of the permit holder, or other liabilities that may result in the permit being cancelled altogether.
Death by a thousand cuts.
Excuse my ignorance, but aren’t most permits worthless? I might be wrong, but from what I’ve read don’t they have to get the permit to even explore enough to know if there is any point in drilling?
Thanks
Permitting is just the initial step in an arduous process, followed by exploration, mining or drilling, transport to a refinery, refining, transport to retail. Corporations are loathe to make a huge commitment if politicians in power say they want to kill the industry, or remove or hamper one link, such as transport (Keystone). There is no dispute that under Trump, we became a net exporter and have since reverted to a net importer. If the Biden administration were serious about energy independence, it would keep up with the demand and gradually phase in the renewable sources that they want. Comparing cherry-picked stats, like permit approvals is simply a smokescreen, and polls show that everybody knows it.
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