Republicans Have No Plan to Fix Inflation

[Wickerthing]

STFU Private Con Artist. You are in no position to order anything other than a damn Pizza.

And this is an example of Eagle's attempt to be clever. Let's all give him a hug.

 

[eagle1462010]

Apparently. Eagle has a league. How nice. And you are right to say I'm not in it. I'm in the Majors and you're playing tee ball. Batter up!

Troll along.............When you get something right about anything we might actually need to respond to your BS

 

[beautress]

Federal Onshore and Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing Pause and Review - Harvard Law School

This page tracks the federal oil and gas leasing pause and related litigation. For more on these leasing programs, see our Onshore Leasing Page and Offshore Leasing Page. If you’re a reporter and would like to speak with an expert on this rule, please email us. Quick Take The IRA makes it hard...

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Jan. 20, 2021 DOI issues Secretarial Order No. 3395, announcing that the agency is temporarily suspending its authority to issue any onshore or offshore fossil fuel authorizations, including new lease sales, for 60 days.
Jan. 20, 2021 In Executive Order 13990, President Biden revokes the Trump Executive Order 13783 titled “Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth.” EO 13783 directed federal agencies to streamline the oil and gas leasing process and suspend, revise, or rescind regulations that burdened the development of domestic energy resources.
Jan. 27, 2021 President Biden signs Executive Order 14008, which pauses all new federal offshore and onshore oil and gas leasing pending a comprehensive review of the leasing and permitting program. The order also revokes Trump’s EO 13795.
Jan. 27, 2022 Western Energy Alliance petitions the District of Wyoming to review President Biden’s suspension of the oil and gas leasing program. Western Energy Alliance v. Biden, No. 0:21-cv-00013 (D. Wyo.).
March 15, 2021 The Biden administration asks the Ninth Circuit to dismiss the case reviewing President Obama’s withdrawing certain Arctic and Atlantic coastal areas from oil and gas leasing in light of President Biden revoking President Trump’s EO 13795 (the EO challenged in this case). The Biden administration asks the court to vacate the lower court ruling and remand with instructions to dismiss the case. League of Conservation Voters v. Trump, No. 19-35460 (9th Cir.).
March 24, 2021 Louisiana and twelve other states file a lawsuit challenging President Biden’s pause on new federal oil and gas lease sales arguing that the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) and the current 5-year Leasing Program prohibit the moratorium. Louisiana v. Biden, Docket No. 2:21-CV-00778 (W.D. La.).
April 13, 2021 The Ninth Circuit dismisses the appeal of the March 29, 2019 decision by a federal judge to reinstate President Obama’s withdrawals of Arctic and Atlantic areas from oil and gas leasing because President Biden’s Executive Order 13990 revoking Trump’s EO 13795 rendered the appeal moot. League of Conservation Voters v. Trump, No. 19-35460 (9th Cir.).
June 15, 2021 A federal judge in the Western District of Louisiana issues a preliminary injunction blocking President Biden’s pause on oil and gas lease sales. The court holds that the leasing moratorium violates statutory authority given to DOI, the Bureau of Land Management, and BOEM under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and the current 5-year leasing program. The judge further holds that the immediate impact of the pause renders the preliminary injunction an appropriate remedy and that the DOI may not continue to pause upcoming Lease Sales 257 or 258. Louisiana v. Biden, Docket No. 2:21-CV-00778 (W.D. La.).
Aug. 9, 2021 Plaintiff states file a motion asking the court to order Lease Sale 257 and asking the federal government to show why its failure to make the sale does not put it in contempt of the preliminary injunction. Louisiana v. Biden, Docket No. 2:21-CV-00778 (W.D. La.).
Aug. 16, 2021 The Biden administration appeals the preliminary injunction that blocked the moratorium on new federal oil and gas leasing. Louisiana v. Biden, Docket No. 2:21-CV-00778 (W.D. La.).
Aug. 24, 2021 DOI announces that it will continue to prepare lease sales during the appeal process.
Aug. 24, 2021 The Department of Justice (DOJ) files a memorandum in response to the plaintiff states’ August 9 motion. DOJ argues that DOI had restarted the leasing program and was therefore complying with the preliminary injunction. DOJ further argues that the preliminary injunction did not require the Lease Sale to occur on any timeline, and the government was therefore entitled to complete a new environmental review. Louisiana v. Biden, Docket No. 2:21-CV-00778 (W.D. La.).
Aug. 31, 2021 Environmental groups file a lawsuit challenging DOI’s decision to hold Lease Sale 257 in the Gulf of Mexico, seeking vacatur and injunction of the sale. The groups argue that the sale of Lease 257 violates the NEPA and the APA and estimate that the sale “will result in the production of up to 1.12 billion barrels and 4.4 trillion cubic feet of fossil fuels over the next 50 years.” Friends of the Earth, et al. v. Haaland, et al., Docket No. 1:21-cv-02317 (D.D.C.).
Sept. 17, 2021 Plaintiff states withdraw their motion to compel Lease Sale 257. Louisiana v. Biden, Docket No. 2:21-CV-00778 (W.D. La.).
Oct. 4, 2021 BOEM publishes a notice in the federal register that it will open and publicly announce bids received for oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico Outercontinental Gas Lease Sale 257 on Nov. 17, 2021.
Oct. 29, 2021 BOEM publishes a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for Lease Sale 258, which would offer leasing for oil and gas in Cook Inlet in the Gulf of Alaska. BOEM also announces a 45-day public comment period on the DEIS.
Nov. 17, 2021 BOEM holds its largest sale ever, the Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 257 for 308 tracts, covering 1.07 million acres of federal waters in the Gulf. In approving the sale, the DOI claimed it was acting “consistent with a U.S. District Court’s preliminary injunction.” However, environmental groups argue that this sale was not required by the June 15 preliminary injunction. These groups contend that by not conducting a new environmental review like the DOJ memo suggested was allowed, the federal government sped up the lease sale and worked against its decarbonization goals.
Nov. 26, 2021 DOI issues a report reviewing the federal oil and gas leasing process and making recommendations for reform. The report finds, among other things, that the current system does not give taxpayers fair returns and does not fully account for environmental harm, and that the current system encourages speculation by and decreases competition among oil companies. The report outlines recommendations to fix these problems and concludes that DOI is deciding how it will act on these recommendations and encourages Congress to pass reforms to the oil and gas leasing process.
Dec. 3, 2021 Democratic members of the House Committee on Natural Resources file an amicus brief in support of environmental groups challenging the Gulf of Mexico lease sale, arguing that the administration’s environmental review “substantially underestimates” the environmental harms of the lease sale. The brief also argues that the nationwide injunction issued by the District Court for the Western District of Louisiana “in no way excused” DOI’s obligations under NEPA and the APA. Friends of the Earth, et al., v. Haaland, et al., No. 21-cv-02317-RC (D.D.C.).
Jan. 19, 2022 Over 360 environmental groups sent a legal petition to the Biden administration to reduce oil and gas drilling to 98% lower than current levels by 2035. The petition explains that, without action, it will be difficult for the United States to keep its pledge to keep global temperatures from rising beyond 1.5℃.
Jan. 20, 2022 Over 80 environmental organizations sign and send a letter to the Biden administration, which urges the Department of the Interior to write a new 5-year Offshore Lease Program that bans lease sales starting in 2022. The letter also calls on Secretary Haaland to repudiate Lease Sale 257.
Jan. 27, 2022 The District Court for the District of Columbia blocks Lease Sale 257 in the Gulf of Mexico because the Department of the Interior failed to take a “hard look” at the environmental impact of the project or to account for the effect of overseas fossil fuel use when calculating climate impacts, which violated the National Environmental Policy Act. Friends of the Earth, et al., v. Haaland, et al., No. 21-cv-02317-RC (D.D.C.). For more background on the ruling, see EELP’s overview of the NEPA Review Process or visit our NEPA Tracker Page for the most up to date review requirements.
Feb. 1, 2022 The Department of the Interior mistakenly posted language on its oil and gas webpage that indicated royalty fees for leases would increase to 18.75%. The Department later removed the language, and a spokesperson for the Department said the decision to increase royalty rates was not yet final.
Feb. 8, 2022 310 environmental groups file a petition asking the Department of the Interior to immediately stop new drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
Feb. 8, 2022 Intervenor defendant, the American Petroleum Institute files a notice of appeal with the D.C. Circuit, challenging the D.C District Court’s decision to block Lease Sale 257 in the Gulf of Mexico. Friends of the Earth, et al. v. Haaland, et al., Docket No. 1:21-cv-02317 (D.D.C.).
Feb. 14, 2022 Louisiana, another intervenor defendant, files a notice of appeal in the D.C. Circuit case that blocked Lease Sale 257. Friends of the Earth, et al. v. Haaland, et al., Docket No. 22-05037 (D.C. Cir).
Feb. 14, 2022 The Biden administration asks the 5th Circuit to reverse the Western District of Louisiana’s decision that blocked the Biden administration’s moratorium on new oil and gas drilling on federal lands and waters. Among other issues, the Biden administration argues that Biden’s Executive Order 14008 is both lawful and unreviewable and that the plaintiffs relied on erroneous interpretations of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and the Mineral Leasing Act. Louisiana v. Biden, Docket No. 21-30505 (5th Cir.)
Feb. 18, 2022 Environmental groups file a motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction in the D.C. Circuit case that blocked Lease Sale 257. Friends of the Earth, et al. v. Haaland, et al., Docket No. 22-05037 (D.C. Cir).
Feb. 22, 2022 A federal judge in the Western District of Louisiana blocks the Biden administration’s application of an interim social cost of carbon metric., Louisiana v. Biden, No. 21-cv-01074 (W.D. La.). For updates on the metric and this litigation, see our Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases tracker page. In light of this decision, the Biden administration announces that it will delay decisions on new oil and gas drilling on federal lands.
Feb. 28, 2022 The Biden administration announces that it will not appeal the District Court’s decision that canceled Lease Sale 257 in the Gulf of Mexico. Friends of the Earth, et al. v. Haaland, et al., Docket No. 1:21-cv-02317 (D.D.C.).
Mar. 8, 2022 The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denies an emergency motion by American Petroleum Institute to expedite the appeal of the District Court decision that canceled Lease Sale 257. Friends of the Earth, et al. v. Haaland, et al., Docket No. 22-05037 (D.C. Cir).
Apr. 15, 2022 To comply with the preliminary injunction issued by the court in Louisiana v. Biden, the DOI announces that the BLM will issue notices for lease sales that will increase in royalty rates from 12.5% to 18.75% and limit the acreage available for leasing. Though this round of lease sales will move forward, the Biden administration continues its appeal of that injunction. Louisiana et al v Biden et al, Docket No. 2:21-cv-00778 (W.D. La.).
April 18, 2022: The BLM publishes final environmental assessments and sale notices for June 2022 lease sales. The final sale notices reduces the acreage of land available for leasing on public lands by 80% and increased royalty rates. For offshore leases, the current 5-year program is scheduled to end on June 30, 2022.
Apr. 19, 2022: The plaintiffs in Western Energy Alliance v. Biden assert that the notice put forward by the Bureau of Land Management still violates the Mineral Leasing Act because BLM did not establish a reliable and predictable leasing system in the future. A hearing in that case is scheduled for May 13. Western Energy Alliance v. Biden, No. 0:21-cv-00013 (D. Wyo.).
Apr. 29, 2022 Republican states attorneys general ask the Western District of Louisiana to grant summary judgment in the case challenging leasing pause. The states also challenge the cancellation of lease sales, including the cancellation of Lease Sale 257. Louisiana v. Biden, Docket No. 2:21-cv-00778 (W.D. La).
May 10, 2022 The Fifth Circuit hears oral arguments on the preliminary injunction that halted the Biden administration’s leasing pause. Louisiana v. Biden, Docket No. 21-30505 (5th Cir.).
May 12, 2022 BOEM cancels upcoming offshore Lease Sales 258, 259, and 261, citing “lack of industry interest” and “conflicting court rulings” as reasons for the cancellations.
May 19, 2022 During a hearing in front of the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee, Secretary Haaland says the DOI will propose a new 5-year offshore leasing plan by June 30, 2022, when the current 5-year plan is set to expire.
May 19, 2022 The states in Louisiana v. Biden write a letter to the Fifth Circuit to inform the court about the three cancelled lease sales. No. 21-30505 (5th Cir.).
May 24, 2022 BOEM writes a letter to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals explaining its decision not to hold the upcoming lease sales. No. 21-30505 (5th Cir.).

Biden drove the United States into being a banana republic in less than 2 years. Just a week ago, Biden declared his economy as "successful." I'm gonna faint. My truck fillup is now $122.00. Last year $45 was my highest fillup. I'm starting to stay home for 3 days, then driving only locally for groceries and repair needs instead of having repairs done by others. I recently got a higher bill for electricity of any monthly price in 50 years, and the weather was reasonable before the drought started. So it's no porchlight in the dark, turning lights out when leaving any room, unplugging tv and computer at nights, Cooling bedrooms only at night. All it does is keep electricity close to last year's prices.

 

[Wickerthing]

Go back to your Aerie! Nighty night!

 

[lantern2814]

Yeah, and what did Bush do to recover? Started wars on the credit card and gave cuts to the rich. Lied us into IRAQ even though all the evidence pointed to Saudi Arabia as the Terrorists in 9/11. That cost our economy and cost over a million lives. Half of them children.

Which has absolutely zero to do with the dot com bubble bursting on Clinton. But you just have to screech about any Republican, no matter how ridiculous you sound.

 

[Wickerthing]

Which has absolutely zero to do with the dot com bubble bursting on Clinton. But you just have to screech about any Republican, no matter how ridiculous you sound.

You're right about one thing, Lantern head. I hate the GOP.

 

[eagle1462010]

Biden drove the United States into being a banana republic in less than 2 years. Just a week ago, Biden declared his economy as "successful." I'm gonna faint. My truck fillup is now $122.00. Last year $45 was my highest fillup. I'm starting to stay home for 3 days, then driving only locally for groceries and repair needs instead of having repairs done by others. I recently got a higher bill for electricity of any monthly price in 50 years, and the weather was reasonable before the drought started. So it's no porchlight in the dark, turning lights out when leaving any room, unplugging tv and computer at nights, Cooling bedrooms only at night. All it does is keep electricity close to last year's prices.

Spending 100 a week on gas right now for a 40 hour check. Double of what it used to be. Add in my health insurance went up about 55 a week. Yes a week. Then the groceries are out the roof. I forced my company to give me a raise not long ago. Told them pay me more or I'm gone. They don't have another tech. I've lost more money on inflation than the raise already.

 

[Wickerthing]

Biden drove the United States into being a banana republic in less than 2 years. Just a week ago, Biden declared his economy as "successful." I'm gonna faint. My truck fillup is now $122.00. Last year $45 was my highest fillup. I'm starting to stay home for 3 days, then driving only locally for groceries and repair needs instead of having repairs done by others. I recently got a higher bill for electricity of any monthly price in 50 years, and the weather was reasonable before the drought started. So it's no porchlight in the dark, turning lights out when leaving any room, unplugging tv and computer at nights, Cooling bedrooms only at night. All it does is keep electricity close to last year's prices.

You don't know enough about the way the economy or the world works to blame it on a single individual. It's not that simple.

 

[eagle1462010]

You're right about one thing, Lantern head. I hate the GOP.

Come November you are gonna get an education of what the people think about your sorry asses.

Hopefully that remains til the far left are NOTHING ANYMORE.

 

[eagle1462010]

Apparently. Eagle has a league. How nice. And you are right to say I'm not in it. I'm in the Majors and you're playing tee ball. Batter up!

 

[lantern2814]

You're right about one thing, Lantern head. I hate the GOP.

Yes you and your party do hate America, whites, Hispanics, straight people, anybody who doesn’t swallow your propaganda. Enjoying that inflation, empty shelves, record high gas prices, stock market collapsing? All caused by YOUR guy.

 

[beautress]

Spending 100 a week on gas right now for a 40 hour check. Double of what it used to be. Add in my health insurance went up about 55 a week. Yes a week. Then the groceries are out the roof. I forced my company to give me a raise not long ago. Told them pay me more or I'm gone. They don't have another tech. I've lost more money on inflation than the raise already.

Prayers up for our American people. We're being punished for Soros paying the big bucks to the Democrat Party to destroy Donald Trump. I hear he (Soros) isn't too happy with Biden/Harris and is considering changing gears of getting out of politics. Biden's spendathon is destroying jobs. He is going from pick a pocket or two to bankrupting everyone.

 

[beautress]

You don't know enough about the way the economy or the world works to blame it on a single individual. It's not that simple.

You didn't know? Biden shows up for work to have his newly-formed oligarchs telling him what to say. He is unavailable to almost everyone and doesn't initiate any ideas, just stands up in front of a reader and sticks to his handlers' narratives. When he's done talking, he about-faces to a conveniently close escape door and answers no questions any more. So you're right, Biden isn't to blame for the decisions the Deep State (secretive) Oligarches who are getting ready to cancel the United States Constitution. Yes, we will hear Biden caterwauling about criticisms leveled against him that belong to the in-crowd Oligarchs who do the deciding. Unfortunately, the voters did not vote on an oligarchy system of government that is so characteristic of communism, and people are a little confused at the El Switcho-Changeo that is going on behind White House doors. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I understand from watching last night's news that we're all going to be paying more taxes as the Democrats are going to push for tax hikes now to pay for their trillion-dollar spendathons. You can criticize me, but things are about to double down on more inflation when the announcement of tax hikes are made in the week ahead.
The trouble with more than one president at a time (oligarchy) is that paying for the wishes and demands of several participants is more expensive than one head of government.
Best wishes as you consider who and what you are representing to put America 6 feet under. They spent enough since Biden's inauguration to make paupers and slaves out of our generation's grandkids, not to mention us all and our children. Please take thought of what is going on in DC. One party rule sucks.

 

[jknowgood]

What's happening was inevitable because of Covid, The Supply chain and greedy oil companies and drug mfgrs. Etc. Presidents have little effect on that. But you clowns killed lower drug prices, jobs programs to rebuild America and even a $15 minimum wage for christsakes! etc etc.

What the hell are you talking about? Trump got the price of insulin down to an affordable price. Look it up, I know cnn didn't tell you.

 

[jknowgood]

Groomer? WTF does that mean? Like the way Trump and his buddy Jeff Epstein feasted on young girls on the Island? And like Ghislaine Maxwell who Trump wished well after her conviction on grooming and prostituting kids? Is that the grooming you refer to?

Let's see, Trump banned Epstein from his resorts when it was known about his behavior. But Clinton went multiple time to orgy Island, while ditching his security detail. But of course you will overlook that. Because you're a hypocrite.

 

[Nostra]

What a baby! Anyone can find whatever they want to support or to challenge any fuckin' thing on the web. I lived through those years and I saw what Reagan was up to. And I've seen what followed and the warnings about supply side economics have been borne out. You make the argument that I have no reason to doubt or to dismiss the source of your fairy tale. The Heritage Foundation is a widely known purveyor of right wing propaganda and disinformation. The claims made by the article that tax cuts and increased spending somehow created a boom is hogwash. What it created was a tripling of the deficit. Carter had the presence of mind and the integrity to not spend our way out of a recession that is a normal correction in many economies and always will be. That's exactly what is happening now and to go further into debt won't fix it now and would not fix it then. 1980 was the turning point for our way of life. What Reagan's economic model did was to ensure that the NEW way to create growth was growth for only the wealthy because it was geared to do just that. Give the wealthy and corporations all of the advantages financially and leave the middle class to play catch up. But the problem with that is that the new system, which every Keynsian economist knew was a red herring can never create fairness and they knew and they still know that to depend on the wealthiest to use those advantages to create new jobs and to expand to new industries would be doing battle with the urge to sock it away and build personal wealth beyond belief. That's what we see now. It was totally foreseeable then and it still is. Hence, the income gap that we see now. The Democrats have tried for decades to return at least partly to Demand side economics which is proven to create jobs and benefit the working class to a much greater extent. But The party of corporations (GOP) resists that at every turn because of abject greed by industry leaders to accumulate personal wealth that is almost pornographic. That's what we have seen and will continue to see. So, you can go right on and cut and paste all of your Evidence and I will tell you what I know to be true because I've lived it. And to answer your childish question, No, you don't know shit! You are just a naive little brat.

Lessee..........a study using government data backed up by footnotes and years of numbers/data VS the recollection of a single digit IQ Dimwinger some 45 years later.

It's a coin toss.

 

[Nostra]

You don't know enough about the way the economy or the world works to blame it on a single individual. It's not that simple.

Weird coming from the Clown who blamed the 80s (despite the booming economy), and every economic problem since then, on Reagan.

 

[bripat9643]

We read and hear all the disinformed talking crazy about Biden, but they have no plan to stop inflation. If they had one, they would have presented it to congress. Because if they had one and it worked, they would most certainly assure themselves the majority. Instead it's been about obstruction and the idiocy of Big Money Manchin and Corporate Slave Sinema.

I say they have no plan because spending by trump contributed to the inflation.

Facts First: While some economists say the stimulus packages passed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic are having an impact on inflation, it's misleading to suggest that's the only explanation for the recent rise in inflation. Blaming it exclusively on Democratic spending proposals misrepresents what's actually been passed, and ignores the trillions of dollars in spending passed last year supported by Republicans and signed by then-President Donald Trump which economists say have also contributed to inflation.

Last year, Congress passed two bills totaling around $3 trillion in Covid relief spending -- the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act passed in March 2020, and the $900 billion pandemic relief bill passed in December 2020. Both were signed by Trump and supported by Republicans.

Fact-checking Republican attempts to blame inflation on Democrats

As the US economy gradually recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, prices are rising across the board with inflation exceeding the Federal Reserve's 2% target and reaching a 13-year high in June. Republicans have turned that jump in inflation into a political talking point, trying to place the...

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And Rick Scotts tax increase for all is not the answer. So the Republican plan is to get the majority and start bogus investigations on Hunter Biden and attempt to impeach Biden, then Harris. If they appoint trump to speaker, understand that is the first move to the attempt to reinstall him as president. Sane Americans cannot continue falling for disinformation. Biden is not the reason that supply chains have been hampered, COVID is. And we were negatively affected by COVID due to the incompetence of a republican president. We cannot afford to have crazies running our government.

The solution is simple: cut deficit spending. Every dollar the government spends that it doesn't have has to be created out of thin air. That's what causes inflation.

 

[Wickerthing]

Come November you are gonna get an education of what the people think about your sorry asses.

Hopefully that remains til the far left are NOTHING ANYMORE.

You just may get a big surprise in November. And I'll be laughing my ass off.

 

[Wickerthing]

Weird coming from the Clown who blamed the 80s (despite the booming economy), and every economic problem since then, on Reagan.

Every problem since then? No, but the beginnings of VooDoo economics as stated by his Vice President in the primaries. Look it up! Silly Goose.