AGs' sue Biden over order to stop oil production on federal controlled sites

 Epoch Times:

A group of Republican attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its executive action pausing new oil and gas drilling on federal land.

In their lawsuit, filed (pdf) on March 24 in the District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, 13 state attorneys general sought to end the suspension of issuing new oil and gas leases on federal land and water. President Joe Biden signed the executive orders as part of his attempt to address climate change on Jan. 27. Wyoming’s attorney general filed a separate lawsuit in a court in its own state.

The lawsuits allege the administration’s leasing pause violates the Mineral Leasing Act that requires quarterly lease sales and sought to restore regular federal drilling auctions. The attorneys general also want other suspended lease orders to move forward in places such as Montana, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.

“By executive fiat, Joe Biden and his administration have single-handedly driven the price of energy up—costing the American people where it hurts most, in their pocketbooks,” Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, who is leading the suit, said in a statement. “Biden’s executive orders abandon middle-class jobs at a time when America needs them most and put our energy security in the hands of foreign countries, many of whom despise America’s greatness.”

Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia joined the suit.

“The real consequences of the action are far from certain and far from uniformly environmentally friendly,” Wyoming said in its complaint.

Biden administration officials have argued that oil and gas firms have numerous undeveloped leases to use, saying that about 14 million acres are available in western states and 9 million acres are available offshore.

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Drilling rigs in New Mexico are already being moved to Texas's Permian Basin.  The federally controlled sites that impact Texas the most are offshore wells.  That is also a problem for Louisiana.

Most of the land in Texas is not under federal control, but Texas companies are harmed by the order because they produce oil on federally controlled sites in other states. 

Biden's restriction on future production has impacted the price by reducing the future supply.  Biden's action against the Keystone XL will also impact the cost of getting oil to market.  So-called fact-checkers on Facebook keep the pretension that the increase in the price of gas is caused by increased consumption.

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