Biden Regime Cancels Oil and Gas Lease Sales in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico

Gas prices don’t appear to be high enough for the Biden Administration.

The regime is determined to make life as difficult as possible for hard-working Americans.

In the latest ‘screw you’ to the American people, the Biden Administration canceled planned oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Cook Inlet.

An Interior Department spokesperson confirmed the Cook Inlet lease sale would not proceed due to insufficient industry interest.

Meanwhile, the planned sale of two leases, lease 259 and lease 261, in the Gulf of Mexico will not proceed due to contradictory court rulings on the leases, the spokesperson confirmed.

Because gas prices just aren't quite high enough yet.

Biden administration cancels oil and gas lease sales in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico https://t.co/zZQNn8d2nP pic.twitter.com/CvRbUcFYbe

— StridentConservative (@StridentConserv) May 12, 2022

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— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) May 12, 2022

Hey America — the Biden Admin says SCREW YOU! Enjoy watching the price at the pump continue to soar. They think this will make you go green. 81 million votes my ass!https://t.co/yxRFEd1N3C

— Joe Pags Pagliarulo (@JoeTalkShow) May 12, 2022

CBS News reported:

The Biden administration has canceled one of the most high-profile oil and gas lease opportunities pending before the Interior Department. The decision, which halts the potential to drill for oil in over 1 million acres in the Cook Inlet in Alaska, comes at a challenging political moment, when gas prices are hitting painful new highs.

In a statement shared first with CBS News, the Department of the Interior cited a “lack of industry interest in leasing in the area” for the decision to “not move forward” with the Cook Inlet lease sale. The department also halted two leases under consideration for the Gulf of Mexico region because of “conflicting court rulings that impacted work on these proposed lease sales.”

Federal law requires the Department of the Interior to stick to a five-year leasing plan for auctioning offshore leases. The administration had until the end of the current five-year plan — set to expire at the end of next month — to complete these lease sales.

Until now, the White House had remained silent about the massive Alaska lease. However, canceling the sale would be in keeping with political promises President Joe Biden made in the name of halting global warming. But those promises have become a political challenge in the face of prices at the pump.

“They don’t want to get hit by the Republicans in light of the high gas prices,” one environmental advocate told CBS News, speaking on the condition he not be named because of the sensitivity of the topic. “They’re getting killed on attacks based on inflation. The most visible sign of inflation is high gas prices.”