Reps. Scalise, Herrell: Biden’s reckless, job-killing energy executive orders must be reversed
Wednesday, President Biden selected left-wing activists over American staff and inexpensive energy prices by signing an executive order to ban new oil and fuel exploration on federal lands.
Who wins?
Oil-producing overseas nations like Russia, Venezuela, and Iran win.
Who loses?
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American staff employed within the energy sector lose. American shoppers and households who rely upon low-cost electrical energy lose. American public colleges and first responders funded by oil and fuel tax revenues lose. America’s nationwide parks and environmental restoration initiatives that depend on oil and fuel revenues lose.
It’s devastatingly easy.
When Washington radicals ban drilling on federal lands, Americans lose their jobs, funding flows abroad, and communities throughout America lose a major income for colleges, well being care, and conservation efforts.
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As two involved leaders who characterize these very communities, we’re elevating the alarm about President Biden’s heavy-handed and job-killing executive actions. One of us, Rep. Yvette Herrell, R-N.M., represents southern New Mexico, the place clear and protected energy growth within the Permian Basin supplies greater than $1 billion a 12 months to fund public schooling.
The different, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., represents southeastern Louisiana, the place offshore drilling within the Gulf of Mexico is the lifeblood of coastal communities and funds lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in coastal restoration and hurricane safety initiatives.
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Our mates and neighbors depend on these jobs to pay lease, put meals on the desk, and maintain the lights on. The Biden administration is attacking their livelihoods and jeopardizing America’s energy safety.
In Western states like New Mexico, the place over a 3rd of all land is owned by the federal authorities, the Biden administration is denying residents’ proper to work the place they dwell.
Under Biden’s plan to limit oil and fuel growth, New Mexico is projected to lose 60,000 jobs — 7% of the complete employed state workforce.
Local governments will lose a median of $1 billion {dollars} in tax income yearly for the following 5 years. Nothing about Biden’s ban helps New Mexicans.
Under Biden’s plan to limit oil and fuel growth, New Mexico is projected to lose 60,000 jobs — 7% of the complete employed state workforce.
In Gulf Coast states like Louisiana, the offshore drilling business helps lots of of 1000’s of jobs — 94,000 in Louisiana alone — and provides $6.7 billion to our tax revenues yearly.
Under an oil-and-gas income sharing settlement, lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} go to rebuilding our state’s vanishing shoreline and funding vital hurricane safety initiatives.
Again, Biden’s plan is projected to destroy 48,000 Louisiana jobs by 2022 and can completely intestine this vital income that protects native communities.
President Biden both doesn’t perceive the harm he’s doing to our communities or he doesn’t care.
If we realized one factor from our energy renaissance over the previous 4 years, it’s that America can produce energy cleaner and cheaper than wherever else on the earth.
By banning a big supply of America’s oil and fuel provide, Biden ships our jobs and energy manufacturing to international locations like Russia, Iran, and Venezuela, who don’t adhere to the identical environmental requirements that we get pleasure from.
Climate activists don’t perceive that banning drilling on federal lands is damaging to each our financial system and our surroundings.
Biden’s plan can be damaging to our nationwide safety. America’s energy dominance secures our standing on the world stage.
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When the United States grew to become the one largest oil and fuel producer on the earth, we have been shielded from market manipulation by OPEC and rogue actors.
By undermining our energy dominance, Biden as soon as once more places us on the mercy of overseas regimes, lots of whom use these new-found billions of {dollars} towards America and our allies.
President Biden has made clear that his actions on Wednesday are simply the beginning of his assault on American jobs.
The identical leftists who put Biden in workplace are demanding that he go additional to ban all fossil fuels and enact insurance policies impressed by the job-killing Green New Deal.
For these activists, rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement gained’t be sufficient, cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline gained’t be sufficient, and banning drilling on federal lands gained’t be sufficient. These far-left radicals gained’t cease till we’re absolutely depending on overseas nations for our energy.
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In the center of a pandemic, whereas states are struggling to get their economies again on monitor and hard-working households and small companies are struggling, it’s not simply inconsiderate for President Biden to signal these heavy-handed executive orders — it’s harmful.
We name on President Biden to reverse these dangerous actions without delay. And we name on Americans throughout the nation to hitch us in standing up for our jobs, our communities, and our energy safety.
Republican Yvette Herrell represents New Mexico’s 2nd District within the United States House of Representatives.
