Except that the Biden admin is on record stating just this. Perhaps research before you contradict a post. I will say this again, Biden and his administration didnt have some revelation that oil was great, it was part of the deal they needed to get done, which ironically did the exact opposite of what its named to do. Perhaps its your enshrined views holding you back.

Manchin, who helped spearhead the Inflation Reduction Act, specifically wrote into the law provisions that required Interior to hold new oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf and Cook Inlet in Alaska. Wednesday’s sale won’t be the last; another sale is scheduled for September. Hmmm, guess he is interested in more than just Virginia coal.

“My strong inclination was to disapprove of it across the board,” Biden said last week in Canada. “But the advice I got from counsel was that if that were the case, we may very well lose in court. And lose that case in court to the oil company.”

On Wednesday, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will hold a lease sale for an area that’s more than double the size of the Willow Project in acreage. The administration was forced to hold the sale after Joe Manchin added it to the Inflation Reduction Act, the major climate and energy bill that President Joe Biden signed last year.


But the administration says it was compelled to open the huge swath of Gulf waters to drilling because of stipulations in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The budget act coalesceed around a deal Democratic leaders reached with their conservative colleague Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, inserting requirements for new oil and gas leases.