{"id":45566,"date":"2022-05-08T17:02:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T21:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45566"},"modified":"2022-05-08T17:02:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T21:02:38","slug":"some-democrats-support-american-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45566","title":{"rendered":"Some Democrats Support American Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article about some House of Representatives Democrats who are supporting a move back to American energy independence.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

A group of House Democrats wrote to President Joe Biden Wednesday urging him to boost energy production by unveiling an offshore drilling plan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The four Democrats \u2014 Texas Reps. Vicente Gonzalez, Sylvia Garcia, Henry Cuellar and Lizzie Fletcher \u2014 said the Ukraine crisis<\/a> has proven the need for domestic oil and gas production to ensure the U.S. isn\u2019t reliant on hostile foreign powers, according<\/a> to the letter. They urged Biden to make progress on a new five-year offshore leasing plan to replace the current one that is set to expire<\/a> in late June.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe energy crisis in Europe demonstrates the vital national security benefits of robust domestic production and the consequences of relying on foreign nations to satisfy our energy needs,\u201d the lawmakers wrote in the letter. \u201cOne important action your administration can take to ensure American energy independence is to publish a new Five-Year Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Plan.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Biden administration has dragged its feet on the replacement plan which the Department of the Interior (DOI) is mandated to issue under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act of 1953. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said there is still a \u201csignificant amount of work\u201d to do before the administration can publish the plan and begin the lengthy public feedback process<\/a>, during<\/a> an April 28 hearing with the House Appropriations Committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Actually, I think it would be better just to open up drilling on land and continue construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, but this is at least a step in the right direction. Offshore drilling does occasionally have accidents, but is generally safe. On land drilling seems to be less risky. The one thing to remember as the Biden administration increases our dependence on foreign oil is that oil from America is generally obtained in a manner more environmentally friendly than the oil from some of the countries we are importing oil from. We were energy independent under President Trump. It would be nice to return there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, The Daily Caller posted an article about some House of Representatives Democrats who are supporting a move back to American energy independence. The article reports: A group of House Democrats wrote to President Joe Biden Wednesday urging him … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[383,10754,7015],"class_list":["post-45566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-energy-independence","tag-offshore-drilling","tag-the-daily-caller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45567,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45566\/revisions\/45567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}