Louisiana congressional delegates react to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s claim that the President is doing nothing to hamper U.S. oil & gas production. Psaki made the comment during a Monday press conference; saying there are 9000 oil & gas leases offshore that oil companies are choosing NOT to explore. Congressman Garret Graves says Psaki shows her ignorance of how exploration and leases work.
“Maybe that place where you got a permit doesn’t actually have oil or gas down there. Maybe it’s not recoverable. Maybe there’s not a way to actually get a pipeline in, because the Biden administration has blocked pipelines” says Graves.
Psaki told Fox news reporter Peter Doocy he should “ask the oil companies” why they’re not drilling. Senator Bill Cassidy says that remark made him laugh out loud. He says this administration has been very unfriendly to domestic oil & gas, and he cites the president’s early official act of cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline as a sign of what was to come.
“They have continued to delay the permitting of pipelines. Some of the reasons these leases have not been developed is because we don’t have pipelines to take the oil and gas from the area, to where it would otherwise be refined.”
Cassidy says Psaki’s comments were playing with words. He says the federal government has been dragging its feet on drilling permits ever since Mr. Biden took office, and… “they’re just not being honest.”
Cassidy says the Biden White House has nominated a person to head the Federal Reserve who wants banks to stop lending for oil & gas exploration, and the administration has cancelled lease sales in the outer Continental Shelf.
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