Biden continues to waste money on green energy, but allows some drilling

 Washington Examiner:

Passage of Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act capped off years of campaigning for major climate change legislation and breathed new life into the renewable energy sector — but not without simultaneously handing a major victory to oil and gas interests by ensuring they have a chance to bid on more federal acreage.

Alongside its hundreds of billions in credits and grants for green energy, the bill, widely branded by supporters as some version of the superlative "most significant climate bill to ever pass Congress," contained instructions for the Interior Department to facilitate more regular mineral leasing of federal lands and waters, a provision included at the demand of centrist Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Weeks after the bill's enactment, the department is taking its first steps to ramp up onshore and offshore leasing in compliance with the law, following nearly two years of sparse sales and legal limbo for leasing under the Biden administration.

BIDEN PRESENTED WITH TOUGH CHOICES ON OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS LEASING

The Interior Department recently reinstated the lone offshore lease sale it carried out in 2021, which had been invalidated by a federal judge, on direction from the bill.

Then, on Thursday, the department posted environmental review documents to move forward with two Gulf of Mexico offshore lease sales it canceled in May, setting it up to carry the sales out next year. It also started taking feedback on the possible auction of acreage in Wyoming and New Mexico.

The announcements are a turning point for the leasing programs and come against the wishes of many Democrats and environmental groups, who want to restrict or end the program in service to slowing climate change.

President Joe Biden sought to overhaul the leasing programs coming into office, having promised on the campaign trail to end drilling and leasing on federal property, and ordered a "pause" on all new leasing during his first week in office pending a comprehensive review of the program.

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Green energy is largely a waste of US resources on inefficient and unreliable green energy.  So far the opening of some drilling sites is not robust enough to make up for all the deficiencies of the Big Green agenda. It is also inadequate to deal with the high cost of energy even with Biden's looting of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for political purposes.  The best way to restore US energy dominance is to vote as many Democrats as possible out of office.

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