{"id":78533,"date":"2022-03-10T10:51:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T16:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=78533"},"modified":"2022-03-10T10:51:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T16:51:16","slug":"78533","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=78533","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Doocy: &quot;You and the President are both talking about producing energy here, saying&#8230;oil &amp; gas companies have 9000 permits to drill now they could be drilling&#8230;Would [he] cut red tape to make that possible?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Psaki: &quot;What red tape needs to be cut when they have the permits?&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BoGWIBUPgS\">pic.twitter.com\/BoGWIBUPgS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1501638010496069635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This red tape right here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/34VCX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden\u2019s U.S. Oil Embargo<\/a><br \/>\nHis assault on domestic energy works against his ban on Russian imports.<\/p>\n<div>President Biden made the right decision Tuesday in banning Russian oil and natural gas imports. Yet at the same time he declared full-steam ahead on his green energy \u201ctransition\u201d that includes an assault on U.S. fossil fuels. The contradiction is maddening.<\/div>\n<div>Banning Russian energy imports is fine as far as it goes, which isn\u2019t very. The U.S. imports only 3% of its petroleum supply and less than 1% of coal from Russia. About 70% of Russian oil currently can\u2019t find buyers because of sanctions risk. That\u2019s the main reason crude prices have shot up to $130 per barrel.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div data-layout=\"wrap \" data-layout-mobile=\"\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"\" aria-label=\"Audio player titled Joe Biden Bans Russian Oil \" data-audio=\"E3BA0A30-FA57-486E-AEBF-EE8A70A8484E\" data-show-header=\"true\" data-show-subscribe=\"true\" data-theme=\"wsj-article\">\n<div id=\"audio-tag-inner-audio-E3BA0A30-FA57-486E-AEBF-EE8A70A8484E\">\n<div id=\"audio-podcastName-audio-E3BA0A30-FA57-486E-AEBF-EE8A70A8484E\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div tabindex=\"0\" role=\"dropdown\" aria-label=\"Subscribe dropdown list\">\n<div>Once uncertainty about the scope of sanctions clears up, Russia will probably find global buyers for its energy at a discount. Imposing so-called secondary U.S. sanctions on institutions that finance Russia\u2019s energy trade would be more effective. But the White House won\u2019t do that because it fears it could drive gasoline prices even higher.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>If that\u2019s the worry, then here\u2019s a better idea: Stand at the White House and declare that his Administration will support the development of U.S. oil and gas. Rescind all regulations designed to curb production, development and consumption. Announce a moratorium on new ones. Expedite permits, and encourage investment. Our guess is the price of Brent crude would fall $20 a barrel in anticipation of higher production.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yet Mr. Biden is doing precisely the opposite. On Tuesday he even blamed U.S. companies\u2014not his policies\u2014for not producing more. There are 9,000 available unused drilling permits, he claimed, and only 10% of onshore oil production takes place on federal land. Talk about a misdirection play.<\/div>\n<div>First, companies have to obtain additional permits for rights of way to access leases and build pipelines to transport fuel. This has become harder under the Biden Administration. Second, companies must build up a sufficient inventory of permits before they can contract rigs because of the regulatory difficulties of operating on federal land.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>It takes 140 days or so for the feds to approve a drilling permit versus\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/34VCX\/https:\/\/www.instituteforenergyresearch.org\/fossil-fuels\/gas-and-oil\/oil-and-natural-gas-production-on-federal-and-non-federal-lands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two for the state of Texas<\/a>. The Administration has halted onshore lease sales. Producers are developing leases more slowly since they don\u2019t know when more will be available. Offshore leases were snapped up at a November auction because companies expect it might be the last one.<\/div>\n<div>Interior\u2019s five-year leasing program for the Gulf of Mexico expires in June. Yet the Administration hasn\u2019t promulgated a new plan. Nor did it appeal a liberal judge\u2019s order in January revoking the November leases. But the Administration has appealed another judge\u2019s order requiring that it hold lease sales.<\/div>\n<div>Then there\u2019s the not-small problem of financing. Companies can\u2019t explore and drill, or build pipelines, without capital. Biden financial regulators allied with progressive investors are working to cut it off. The Labor Department has proposed a rule that would require 401(k) managers to consider the climate impact of their investment holdings.<\/div>\n<div>The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to issue a rule requiring companies and their financiers to disclose greenhouse gas emissions. Mr. Biden has nominated Sarah Bloom Raskin, of all people, to be the Federal Reserve\u2019s top bank supervisor. Her top priority is using bank regulation to redirect capital from fossil fuels to green energy.<\/div>\n<div>Large energy producers are buying back stock and redirecting capital to renewables because they see the Administration\u2019s writing on the wall. Small independent producers are eager to take advantage of higher prices but can\u2019t get loans. Many relied on private equity during the last shale boom, but now these firms are cutting them off.<\/div>\n<div>Progressive outfit Global Energy Monitor gleefully proclaimed Tuesday that $244 billion in U.S. liquefied natural gas projects are stalled because they \u201care struggling to find financiers and buyers\u201d amid \u201cpressure from cheap renewables&#8221;\u2014i.e., rich green energy subsidies that Democrats want to make richer\u2014and \u201ctightening climate commitments.\u201d<\/div>\n<h4>***<\/h4>\n<div>It\u2019s almost a miracle that any oil and gas production is occurring in America amid this political hostility. The Ukraine crisis ought to be an inflection point that causes the Biden Administration to do an energy reset. Instead, the President says it \u201cshould motivate us to accelerate the transition to clean energy\u201d and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.<\/div>\n<div>Replacing Russia\u2019s five million barrels of global crude exports with U.S. and Canadian oil and building pipelines to transport it would take time. But the transition to a fossil-free world will take decades and technological breakthroughs\u2014and will leave the U.S. dependent on China, Russia and other countries for minerals like lithium and nickel.<\/div>\n<div>Mr. Biden bemoans today\u2019s skyrocketing gas prices, yet he remains hostage to the green-energy donors whose policies guarantee higher prices. The President is enabling\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/34VCX\/https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/topics\/person\/vladimir-putin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u2019s energy leverage even as he claims the opposite.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doocy: &quot;You and the President are both talking about producing energy here, saying&#8230;oil &amp; gas companies have 9000 permits to drill now they could be drilling&#8230;Would [he] cut red tape to make that possible?&quot; Psaki: &quot;What red tape needs to be cut when they have the permits?&quot; pic.twitter.com\/BoGWIBUPgS &mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 9, 2022 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=78533\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceit","category-goobermint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78536,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78533\/revisions\/78536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}