Biden, in 11th hour action, bans new offshore oil and gas drilling in most federal waters

[Scott Downey]

All over protecting his legacy on climate change issues

MSN

In the past courts have not allowed ban reversals.
But don't you think Trump and congress in opposition to Biden will change the law?


Biden's actions, which protect more than 625 million acres of federal waters, could be difficult for President-elect Donald Trump to unwind, since they would likely require an act of Congress to repeal. T

 

[Scott Downey]

And this, due to environmental actions by the government, the US is forced to import much of it's oil

Why the U.S Can’t Use the Oil it Produces

The reason the U.S. can’t fully utilize the oil it produces boils down to a mix of economic, infrastructural, and geopolitical factors.

www.fuelstreamservices.com

The economy is shackled by ideology and elitists pushing climate global warming policies onto governments.
So the poor get poorer, the rich richer, and the middle class keeps shrinking.
Their policies steadily raise the cost of living, expensive energy costs are felt in everything you buy.

Their green energy solutions don't work economically, green energy is very expensive, so then you get to suffer.
Germany is feeling their bad energy policies heavily with their industries shutting down.

 

[Rockerduck]

Biden can't ban anything except by executive order. A law would have to be passed, and it will never pass congress before Biden is gone. A stroke of the pen reverses an executive order. If it is an EPA action, Trump can fire the entire EPA. But the EPA cannot make a law.

 

[marks]

All over protecting his legacy on climate change issues

MSN

In the past courts have not allowed ban reversals.
But don't you think Trump and congress in opposition to Biden will change the law?


Biden's actions, which protect more than 625 million acres of federal waters, could be difficult for President-elect Donald Trump to unwind, since they would likely require an act of Congress to repeal. T

This is why I think Biden's presidency needs to be declared illegitimate, and his actions undone as unconstitutional.

Much love!

 

[Wick Stick]

Biden can't ban anything except by executive order. A law would have to be passed, and it will never pass congress before Biden is gone. A stroke of the pen reverses an executive order. If it is an EPA action, Trump can fire the entire EPA. But the EPA cannot make a law.

It's not an executive order, new legislation, or an EPA action.

From the article:

Biden ... is using authority under the federal Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect offshore areas ... from future oil and natural gas leasing. ... The 72-year-old law that Biden cited allows the president to withdraw portions of the outer continental shelf from mineral leasing, including leasing to drill for oil and gas, if the areas are deemed too sensitive to drill.

 

[Rockerduck]

This is why I think Biden's presidency needs to be declared illegitimate, and his actions undone as unconstitutional.

Much love!

I believe in the last month of any Presidency; the current President must sit down with the incoming President to make decisions on a national level. For instance, a lame duck president cannot ask congress to declare war.

 

[Wick Stick]

All over protecting his legacy

His legacy? What does this have to do with asking for ice cream, or turning his back to the cameras?

 

[Rockerduck]

It's not an executive order, new legislation, or an EPA action.

From the article:

Biden ... is using authority under the federal Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect offshore areas ... from future oil and natural gas leasing. ... The 72-year-old law that Biden cited allows the president to withdraw portions of the outer continental shelf from mineral leasing, including leasing to drill for oil and gas, if the areas are deemed too sensitive to drill.

then under the same act Donald Trump can undue whatever the current president does.

 

[Truth7t7]

Biden can't ban anything except by executive order. A law would have to be passed, and it will never pass congress before Biden is gone. A stroke of the pen reverses an executive order. If it is an EPA action, Trump can fire the entire EPA. But the EPA cannot make a law.

Exactly Correct!

The opinion writer Scott Downey is Canadian and its apparent he doesn't know how our constitutional democracy works

Can't wait to see American tariffs on Canada, bring those jobs back to American soil, with a large chunk being in the energy sector

This is nothing more than a last ditch effort for Obama/Biden to sling mud, and in two weeks they can grab their box of tissue and weap as they watch the Donald J. Trump inauguration on Jan 20th 2025

Just let's the world see how determined the left is to undermine America and the majorities voice as seen Nov 5th 2024 in the Trump landslide victory

 

[Scott Downey]

Biden issues ban on offshore oil and gas drilling in most federal waters. Trump vows to undo it

President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, a last-minute effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration to expand offshor...

www.yahoo.com

Trump says will immediately unban the ban.

 

[Truth7t7]

then under the same act Donald Trump can undue whatever the current president does.

Exactly, this is nothing more than propaganda to divert attention away from Trump in a false attempt at throwing a wrench in the gears Drill Baby Drill!

 

[Scott Downey]

It is not so simple though as it could require an act of congress.
This is not my opinion, ok!

Mr. Trump’s promised repeal could be challenged by environmental groups, and several legal experts said there was a strong chance that Mr. Biden’s ban could survive.
While section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act gives the president wide leeway to bar drilling, it does not include language that would allow any president to revoke a ban.

Mr. Trump has already tried and failed to repeal such a prohibition. In 2015, President Barack Obama banned offshore drilling in about 98 percent of federally owned Arctic waters as well as 3.8 million acres of the Atlantic Ocean home to unique deepwater corals and rare fish.
Mr. Trump repealed the order and environmental groups, led by the nonprofit Earthjustice, sued. In 2019, a Federal District Court judge in Alaska ruled that the ban could not be undone without an act of Congress.
“It’s unquestionably within Biden’s powers to do this and there’s a big legal question about whether Trump can undo it ,” said Michael Gerrard, the director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University.
While the case could be a powerful precedent for Mr. Biden, others noted that it was never fully resolved.
The Trump administration appealed. But then Mr. Biden won the 2020 election. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to dismiss the case and Mr. Biden’s administration reissued Mr. Obama’s bans. Moreover, some lawyers argue that the Alaska ruling applies only to that state.

“I would view it as an unsettled issue and certainly one that the new administration will continue to pursue,” said Ann D. Navaro, a partner at Bracewell, a law firm that advises energy clients.
Republicans, who will control both chambers in the new Congress, might also try to amend the 1953 law to allow presidents to reverse the drilling bans of their predecessors.
That, however, would require a at least 60 votes in the Senate to clear procedural hurdles, which would be challenging with Republicans holding just a three-seat majority.

Biden Bans New Oil and Gas Drilling Along Most U.S. Coasts

The ban affects the entire Eastern Seaboard, the Pacific Coast along California, Oregon and Washington, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Northern Bering Sea.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Behold]

Im not certain if Biden's offshore Drilling ban, can be changed..
Trump will have to work that out..

And truly, where Trump and His "incoming Cabinet" made a grave mistake, was taking a 2 month "victory lap".. and during this celebration they kept telling everyone what they were going to do, once they were in Office..

That was a mistake, as that laid out the plans, and now the other side has been very busy setting up barriers, and this drilling Ban is just one more.

Trump and Trump's Team have been so "loud and proud" that they have given the other side the blueprint, and now they are busy working out their plan to stop everything that Trump was going to try to do.
The Dems have been on the phones, calling all their "owned" Federal Court Judges.. .and telling them to get ready to "BLOCK" everything that Trump has planned to do, that the Dems know all about, as Trump and his Team have been busy showing them for the last 2 months.

 

[Truth7t7]

Biden issues ban on offshore oil and gas drilling in most federal waters. Trump vows to undo it

President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, a last-minute effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration to expand offshor...

www.yahoo.com

Trump says will immediately unban the ban.

You were aware of that all along Scott, your just trying to stoke the fire in the conservative American base

Canada isn't going to be laughing when the Canadian energy pipelines are shut off to America, and Tariffs are put into place, your country Canada is being left behind in the dust of the Trump conservative agenda

 

[Scott Downey]

Exactly Correct!

The opinion writer Scott Downey is Canadian and its apparent he doesn't know how our constitutional democracy works

Can't wait to see American tariffs on Canada, bring those jobs back to American soil, with a large chunk being in the energy sector

This is nothing more than a last ditch effort for Obama/Biden to sling mud, and in two weeks they can grab their box of tissue and weap as they watch the Donald J. Trump inauguration on Jan 20th 2025

Just let's the world see how determined the left is to undermine America and the majorities voice as seen Nov 5th 2024 in the Trump landslide victory

Read my last post.

 

[Scott Downey]

You were aware of that all along Scott, your just trying to stoke the fire in the conservative American base

Canada isn't going to be laughing when the Canadian energy pipelines are shut off to America, and Tariffs are put into place, your country Canada is being left behind in the dust of the Trump conservative agenda

What makes you think I still live in Canada? I am not a Canadian citizen. Although the maritime provinces are great, do you like lobster fishing?

 

[Scott Downey]

And the tariffs would be a big negative on both sides. US gets a lot of oil from Canada. and a lot of US produced oil is not usable in the US due to climate laws and the law requires a lot of extra refining of high Sulphur oil.

I am hoping the tariff with Canada is short or none at all. Kevin O'Leary says half of Canada wants a joined economic union with the US.

MSN

 

[Truth7t7]

What makes you think I still live in Canada? I am not a Canadian citizen. Although the maritime provinces are great, do you like lobster fishing?

Just noticed the change from Canada, you live in one of America's colonies in the Virgin Islands, a recent change, smiles!

In a worse case scenario all that will need to take place is a act written up to supercede the 1953 act, and it's my opinion the democrats will cross the isle and join Republicans to pass a new act with a simple majority for needed jobs in their districts

Do you think democratic house representatives in Texas are going to vote against jobs in the oil industry "Hardly" political suicide, their going to run across the isle with their votes

Just as the house speaker was recently nominated with only one hold out, it would be the same in writing up a new act that supercedes the 1953 act Biden used to ban drilling, the house Republicans aren't going to change in the light of Bidens devious acts

It takes a simple majority in the house/senate to move an act to the presidents desk for approval, and there will be several democrats crossing the isle to assist the Republicans for "Jobs" in their respective districts

Conclusion: Biden actions on banning drilling are no different than him giving commie George Soro's the medal of Freedom, it's nothing more than political mud slinging and the leftist democrats aren't going to win, I'm sure the republican congress is already drawing up the new act that will supercede the 1953 act as I write

P.S. I look forward to America's tariffs on Canada, bring American jobs and wealth back home "America First"

 

[Scott Downey]

Just noticed the change from Canada, you live in one of America's colonies in the Virgin Islands, a recent change, smiles!

In a worse case scenario all that will need to take place is a act written up to supercede the 1953 act, and it's my opinion the democrats will cross the isle and join Republicans to pass a new act for needed jobs in their districts

Do you think democratic house representatives in Texas are going to vote against jobs in the oil industry "Hardly" political suicide

Just as the house speaker was recently nominated with only one hold out it would be the same in writing up a new act that supercedes the 1953 act Biden used

It takes a simple majority in the house/senate to move an act to the presidents desk for approval, and there will be several democrats crossing the isle to assist the Republicans for "Jobs" in their respective districts

Conclusion: Biden actions on banning drilling are no different than him giving commie George Soro's the medal of Freedom, it's nothing more than political mud slinging and the leftist democrats aren't going to win, I'm sure the republican congress is already drawing up the new act that will supercede the 1953 act as I write

P.S. I look forward to America's tariffs on Canada, bring American jobs and wealth back home "America First"

That tariff will drive up the gallon cost of gas and diesel, maybe a lot.

 

[Scott Downey]

Crude oil imports from Canada have become increasingly important to U.S. oil refineries, now making up most U.S. imports. U.S. oil refining capacity stood at 18.4 million barrels per day (b/d) as of January 1, 2024. In 2023, 60% of U.S. crude oil imports originated in Canada, up from 33% in 2013.

As crude oil production has increased in Canada, so have exports to the United States. Imports from Canada to the United States grew by an average of 4% in every year from 2013 to 2023. Canada’s crude oil exports to the United States amounted to 24% of U.S. refinery throughput in 2023, an increase from 17% in 2013.

Crude oil production averaged 4.6 million b/d in Canada during 2023, nearly three times the country’s 1.7 million-b/d refinery capacity. Many U.S. refineries are designed to handle heavy oils like those produced in Canada’s oil sands, yielding refined products such as transportation fuels (gasoline and diesel), chemicals, and plastics.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=62664