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Should the U.S. expand offshore oil drilling?

In July 2022 the Biden administration issued a draft plan to expand oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska. The proposal from the Department of the Interior recommends holding up to 10 lease sales in the Gulf over the next five years, as well as one sale in the Cook Inlet off the coast of south-central Alaska. Under the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the federal government must plan for offshore oil and gas leasing on a five-year basis. The previous plan was finalized under President Barack Obama in 2016, went into effect in 2017, and expired in 2022. Opponents inclu…  

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Response rates from 21.3k Vermont voters.

30%
Yes
70%
No
28%
Yes
55%
No
2%
Yes, and deregulate the energy sector to let the free market determine the best energy sources
8%
No, and provide more incentives for alternative energy production
4%
No, but maintain our current offshore oil wells
1%
No, end all offshore oil drilling
1%
No, and nationalize the energy sector

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 @8JCJLWV from Texas  answered…4yrs4Y

Not enough knowledge to make an informed vote

 @6WS2R4W from Pennsylvania  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, but with very strict environmental regulations

 @96J29WM from Texas  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, but with very strict environmental regulations

 @smowery65from Virginia  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes. There are millions of gallons of oil off Cuba. If we were able to drill offshore of Cuba and refine and sell our own fuel here, we would no longer have to rely on the Middle East.

 @4S5T2QBfrom Pennsylvania  answered…4yrs4Y

Are we being fair to the places we are taking it from?

 @4RG6QZPfrom Maine  answered…4yrs4Y

Why? Do you need that so badly? Are American people out of oil? Or do you want only money? :D Then, no way. Find safer ways (and more friendly to environment) to earn your useless money.

 @9D3RPBQfrom Guam  answered…1yr1Y

No we must nationalise the energy sector and abolish capitalism

 @9R8SQN2 from Mississippi  answered…5mos5MO

Oil drilling is okay for now, but we need to invest more sustainable and green alternatives, and better ones than what we have now.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…8mos8MO

Biden hits US oil drillers with first royalty rate increase in a century

The Biden administration has increased the cost of oil and gas drilling on public lands, raising royalty rates for the first time in a century as part of a sweeping crackdown on the industry ahead of November’s election. The Bureau of Land Management said on Friday it had finalised a rule to raise the royalties drillers must pay to the government for the first time since 1920 and the bonds needed to cover the cost of clean-ups for the first time since 1960. “These are the most significant reforms to the federal oil and gas leasing program in decades, and they will cut wasteful speculation, increase returns for the public, and protect taxpayers from being saddled with the costs of environmental clean-ups,” said Deb Haaland, interior secretary.The rule comes as President Joe Biden toughens his stance on fossil fuel producers in a bid to mobilise progressive voters in the run-up to this year’s presidential election. His administration also recently moved to restrict offshore drilling leases and froze permits for new liquefied natural gas infrastructure. But the royalty rise also comes as crude oil prices increase amid fears of supply disruptions due to turmoil in the Middle East — factors that have already pushed up US petrol prices and boosted inflation, just as Biden tries to sell his economic record to voters.Royalty rates will rise from 12.5 per cent to 16.67 per cent, in line with a change first mandated by the Inflation Reduction Act, Biden’s landmark climate law. Minimum bond requirements, used to pay for the clean-up of abandoned wells, will rise from $10,000 to $150,000 for an individual lease.Friday’s rule is the latest of several climate rules by federal agencies as Biden races to wrap up his regulatory agenda ahead of November’s vote.Friends of the Earth, an environmental group, said that while it supported the new royalty rate rise as a way to “curb financial giveaways to Big Oil”, the rule failed “to confront the massive tide of climate emissions stemming from [the interior department’s] leasing programme”.

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