Well, really, the whole government isn’t actually shutdown
Trump Keeps Oil Permits Moving in Shutdown, Halts Renewables
The Trump administration plans to continue issuing permits for oil drilling and do other work on “priority conventional energy projects” during the government shutdown but will freeze activities on some renewable energy projects.
The Interior Department, which oversees energy development on federal lands and waters, is furloughing thousands of workers but will keep processing permits for new oil and gas projects, coal leases and other energy work, according to its shutdown plan. The department’s Bureau of Land Management, which oversees about 245 million acres of public land, said staffers handling those issues are exempt from furloughs in part to address a national energy emergency that President Donald Trump declared earlier this year.
The agency has scheduled dozens of oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska and will continue work on those plans despite the shutdown that began Wednesday. Its Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which expects to furlough over 70% of its workers, said it will use carryover funds to keep employees working on “priority conventional energy projects,” including offshore drilling permits and a five-year plan for selling leases along the Outer Continental Shelf. Work on renewable energy projects will cease, according to the agency, which has oversight over offshore energy development.
Good. The US needs energy, and, since Warmists mostly won’t give up their own use, we need more.
Meanwhile
Federal Judge Rules Biden’s Massive Offshore Oil And Gas Ban Was Illegal
Former U.S. President Joe Biden overstepped his authority when he ordered a withdrawal of sizable portions of federal waters from future oil and gas development, a federal judge in Louisiana ruled. [emphasis, links added]
U.S. District Court Judge James Cain in Lake Charles ruled Friday in favor of oil and gas industry groups and attorneys general in five states.
They sued to block Biden’s action to prohibit the development of 625 million acres in federal waters off the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of America, and portions of the northern Bering Sea in Alaska.
Biden, in his final month in office, issued a memorandum that withdrew the areas from oil and gas leasing, citing his authority under the 72-year-old Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
President Donald Trump, on the first day of his second term, issued an executive order that repealed Biden’s memoranda.
Cain ruled that Biden’s withdrawal was illegal because it was intended to be permanent. The judge said President Barack Obama’s withdrawal of lands from oil and gas leasing was also illegal.
Funny that Obama and Biden would do this, considering their own massive use of fossil fuels.
Over 20% of all new cars sold in USA are fully or partially electrified
25% of Hondas are electrified. Honda says they will sell only EVs after 2040, 15 years away
Honda ain’t saying that now, johnnie.
Try to keep up.
Mr smith² wrote:
Note what Mr smith² wrote: “Over 20% of all new cars sold in USA are fully or partially electrified”. He’s including hybrids, which use gasoline engines to keep the batteries charged. Hybrids are very fuel efficient, but they aren’t subject to the same stupidity as all-electric vehicles, having few places to charge and running out of juice if the driver can’t find a place to sit for an hour to recharge the battery, rather than spend ten minutes refueling.
I have no objection to hybrids at all, and would consider buying one myself if we were planning to buy a new car. What I have objected to is the government trying to force everyone into all-electric vehicles. If someone
is stupid enoughwants to buy a Chevy Dolt, it ought to be his individual choice, but leave the rest of us alone.William typed: Good. The US needs energy, and, since Warmists mostly won’t give up their own use, we need more.
As US crude production increases, the Middle East (OPEC) cuts production. It’s a global market and US production is not just for the US. Overall crude production has been essentially flat since 2014. There was a dip during the Covid recession.
https://yearbook.enerdata.net/crude-oil/world-production-statistics.html
The distinguished Mr Dowd wrote:
So, America is using American resources to provide good, well-paying jobs for American workers! I most certainly approve.
Mr Dana is correct! The US employs some 2 million Americans and immigrants in the oil and gas extraction industries, including Hank Hill of Arlen TX and Tommy Norris of West TX. That’s just over 1% of our total workforce!! It’s estimated (based on TX analysis) that 4-5% of the field employees are “illegals”! OMG!!
We have about the same number of college professors!
We have twice that many K-12 teachers.
Our medical workforce (nurses, techs, therapists, doctors) totals 17 million!
It’s estimated we have 0.5 million clergy.
It’s estimated we have 0.3 million “illegal” agricultural workers, classified as “essential workers”. LOL.
Can’t seem to make a relevant point past the cut and paste can ya, Rimjob?
I suspect that Mr Dana and I agree that the idea of “permits” to harvest oil, gas and coal is unAmerican. Why should the government control our lands and waters?
Maybe the same reason the government doesn’t allow Galera Therapeutics to market a cancer therapy drug that doesn’t work as advertised.
Just a wild guess.