{"id":44580,"date":"2022-02-17T14:38:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T19:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44580"},"modified":"2022-02-17T14:38:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T19:38:16","slug":"is-the-biden-administration-required-to-follow-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44580","title":{"rendered":"Is The Biden Administration Required To Follow The Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article about the Biden administration’s ability to ignore laws that they don’t like.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The Biden administration missed another deadline to hold quarterly onshore oil drilling lease sales after a federal court ruled it was legally required to do so.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Department of the Interior (DOI) defied the June 2021 court ruling which ordered<\/a> the administration to halt its ban on new oil and gas leases, the Western Energy Alliance \u2014 a fossil fuel industry group that challenged the ban \u2014 said Wednesday. In August 2021, the DOI vowed<\/a> to publish notices of competitive sales in December and hold a lease sale 45 days later, two promises it failed to keep, in court filings<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Biden just told the American people he\u2019ll work like the devil to lower prices at the gas pump. But the lack of progress on federal lease sales means he\u2019s not trying very hard,\u201d Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, said in a statement. \u201cThe department continues to miss deadlines, drag its feet, and ignore a judge\u2019s ruling to hold sales.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

President Joe Biden has pushed an aggressive anti-fossil fuel agenda since taking office, nixing<\/a>\u00a0the Keystone XL pipeline,\u00a0ditching<\/a> an oil drilling project in Alaska and staying silent<\/a> on a court ruling that prohibited a massive offshore drilling lease in the Gulf of Mexico. The White House has appealed<\/a> to Middle Eastern and Russian energy producers for more oil and natural gas production.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Still, Biden promised<\/a> Tuesday that he would \u201cwork like the devil\u201d to ensure gasoline prices declined.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe oil and natural gas on federal public lands belong to the American people and could help the nation lower energy prices,\u201d Sgamma said. \u201cInstead, the president lobbies Russia and OPEC to boost their production while constraining American producers. As a result, gas prices remain high and the president makes empty promises.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

DOI official Laura Daniel-Davis said<\/a> that oil and gas leases were ongoing during a Senate hearing on Feb. 8, an assertion Sgamma characterized as \u201cflat out incorrect.\u201d Sgamma noted that there hasn\u2019t been a single onshore lease sale since Biden took office and it remains unclear whether there will be any in the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, the DOI defended its actions, saying that it will continue to comply with court orders.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe continue to comply with the injunction entered in Louisiana v Biden and are reviewing recent orders from the district courts in Louisiana,\u201d DOI spokesperson Melissa Schwartz told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement. \u201cWe do not have any updates as to timing of the next steps in the process.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elections have consequences. Do you remember when gas hit $4 a gallon during the Obama administration and President Obama said he didn’t think the high price was a bad thing–he just felt that the price climbed that high too quickly? We have a similar situation in the Biden administration. Saying you want to bring down gasoline prices and then limiting drilling in America does not make sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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