That accusation is a complete red herring,
and it's really a distraction from the fact
that this administration has paused leasing
on federal lands, something that we're concerned about
and something that we think needs to continue right away.
The fact is that industry is producing at a higher
level on existing leases on federal lands
than in the last 20 years.
And these leases take many years to explore,
to develop, and to produce on.
This represents a fundamental misunderstanding
as to how this process works.
Once you lease land, there is a whole process
that you have to go through.
First, you have to actually discover
whether, actually, there is oil and gas in that land.
Second of all, you have to get a permit
to actually develop that land.
Right now, we actually are developing more leases
than we have in two decades.
So the White House certainly doesn't have
their facts straight on this.
What they should be focused on is
how we develop more of our resources here
in the United States rather than depending
on foreign countries for American oil--
oil and natural gas.
It's understanding the business
is kind of the answer to that.
Oil and gas development is a long game.
Permits are leased, and the--
the Earth is explored.
And some permits are viable, and some are not.
But right now, the moratorium on leasing
certainly just adds an additional-- just an additional
block to American energy production.
And so that is the opposite of what
we need to be doing right now.
We need energy infrastructure development.
We need to stop the rhetoric that's anti-fossil fuel,
and we need some clarity kind of in the regulatory sense
that this administration is behind domestic production
of energy.
Yeah, it's not truthful, right?
And it's not truthful at all.
From day one, day one, this administration
has been hell-bent with their anti-American energy holy war
to shut down the production of American energy.
She knows that, right?
It's delaying leases.
Look, you can get a lease and then
they delay the permits for you to be able to do
seismic and do work on it.
In Alaska, they delay the ability to get a permit
for an ice road, which is how we go and do
exploration on these leases.
They have shut that down.
They have tried to kill pipelines.
Day one, you saw Biden said he wasn't
going to produce on energy--
on ANWR, even though it's in the law that he has to do it,
says Shell.
And then you guys got--
you have people like John Kerry and Gina McCarthy, going around
to the American financial community saying,
don't invest in American energy.
So day one, they have been focused
on killing the production of American energy.