Joe Manchin says his own party is violating the law he signed

[candycorn]

The he is a pronoun that refers to the person in the story that signed the bill

The he refers to Biden.

2nd or 3 rd grade English.

You seem to have flunked it twice in that case. LOL

 

[Rigby5]

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Sen. Joe Manchin on Tuesday tore into Interior Secretary Deb Haaland for ignoring federal law that requires fossil fuel and critical mineral development, and for the first delay in U.S. history in developing a five-year offshore oil and gas lease sale plan.
At a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing, Manchin told Haaland that he and other senators are "tired" of asking about these delays month after month with no clear answers.
"Secretary Haaland, when it comes to these energy and mineral programs that are so crucial to our energy and national security, I must say, for the last few years, it has felt like we are repeating the same conversations and having the same talks over and over," Manchin said. "I’m tired, and I know the members of this committee are tired, of asking again and again, when will we see progress on the action required by law, and being told ‘soon,’ and ‘we are working on it.’"

"We need and deserve better answers than that," he said.

Manchin used the hearing to accuse Haaland and the entire administration of ignoring language in the Inflation Reduction Act that said the government cannot explore offshore wind or onshore wind and solar production unless it continues to develop offshore oil and gas.

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"We tied that to the IRA," he said. "You cannot do offshore wind, you cannot do onshore wind or solar unless we are extracting the resources that the good Lord has given us.

"You can feel our frustration on what’s going on here. It seems like we’re flagging it every day," he added.


As evidence that the administration is slow-walking fossil fuel development, Manchin noted several times that officials failed to develop a five-year offshore oil and gas leasing plan by last summer’s deadline. Industry experts have said that delay would hurt U.S. oil and gas development in the years ahead and have noted that the only offshore oil and gas leases that have taken place under Biden have been those ordered by Congress or the courts.

"We’ve never even had a gap between programs before, never a gap, let alone the year and a half delay that we’re expecting now," Manchin said of the delayed five-year plan. "In fact, we talked about this exact issue at this same hearing last year."

"The lack of progress with this program combined with the lack of advanced preparation for 2024 sales unfortunately sends a signal that you have no intention of holding any offshore lease sales in 2024, after the final mandatory sale in September 2023," Manchin added.

When asked about the delayed plan in the hearing, Haaland blamed the Trump administration and said it should be ready several months from now.

"The reason the five-year plan is behind is because the previous administration dropped the ball and stopped working on the plan," she said. "Our staff picked it up, they started working on it, we expect the final plan out in September."

"We’ve never even had a gap between programs before, never a gap, let alone the year and a half delay that we’re expecting now," Manchin said of the delayed five-year plan. "In fact, we talked about this exact issue at this same hearing last year."

LOL.

Is Joe Manchin that naive, to believe the DNC would follow the law he signed which was to pursue fossil fuel development or is he just playing stupid for the Red State of WVA?

Rising prices are not from inflation, but from the illegal economic sanctions on Russian oil.
Increased oil production would reduce prices, but also make us run out of oil even faster.
We only have about 30 to 50 years worth left.
Using it now when it is cheap, make little sense.

 

[Rigby5]

Manchin has interests in coal mining in West Virginny earning him bewtween $500,000 to $1 million a year. His policy initiatives revolve around them. He's a slime ball.

We have about 40 years of oil and gas left, but about 500 years worth of coal.
So we are eventually have to going to use that coal.
We won't be able to make fertilizers without the phosphorus, nitrogen, etc. from coal.

 

[Rigby5]

The US People don't own the Oil that is extracted in US, the Oil Companies do and they legally have to sell to the highest bidder (transport is insignificant <1c a gallon)...

Actually the way the laws were, was that US oil could not be exported.
I don't remember when they changed the law, but it was a bad idea.

 

[ActionJackson]

Rising prices are not from inflation, but from the illegal economic sanctions on Russian oil.
Increased oil production would reduce prices, but also make us run out of oil even faster.
We only have about 30 to 50 years worth left.
Using it now when it is cheap, make little sense.

Oil replenishes itself. We have enough here in the USA to keep us going for a couple of hundred years.

Scientist Says Earth's Petroleum Supply Is Replenishing Itself

We Have Way More Than 53 Years' Worth of Oil Left | The Motley Fool

If reserve-to-production ratios were accurate, we would have run out of oil years ago.

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