A little more info and some facts from a simple Google search. Article from June, 2022 when he’d been in office 17 months. Aligns to his promise that he’ll get us off of fossil fuels. Gives oil
companies the warm and fuzzies to go spend billions drilling for new oil, or dump a pile of cash into R&D for something the leader of the free world says he’s going to eliminate demand for. They have to watch out for their shareholders.
To date, Biden is the only president in modern history not to have held a single oil and gas lease sale on federal lands despite clear direction from Congress to do so quarterly.
While the Department of Interior is being forced by court order to hold a lease sale this quarter, it increased fees by 50% and decreased the amount of available acreage for drilling by 80%—even as it cuts fees and red tape for renewable “green” energy production.
Timelines to approve permits to drill on already leased land ballooned from the Trump administration’s best average of 108 days in 2019 to 182 days under the Biden administration, and scores of permits are now being held up by litigation initiated by extreme environmental groups allied with the White House.
Offshore, the Biden administration has not completed a single lease sale. In contrast, Trump held eight in his single term and former President Barack Obama held 29 lease sales in his two terms.
[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.heritage.org/energy-economics/commentary/bidens-radical-anti-fossil-fuel-energy-policy-costs-americans-dearly[/URL]
One of many articles and sources that reported on this…
