Report: Joe Biden to Recommend Increasing Red Tape, Fees on Oil Industry 

The Biden administration will reportedly recommend increasing red tape and fees on the United States’s oil industry Friday.

The U.S. Interior Department will release a delayed study from the summer about how to further strangle the American energy sector to fulfill Biden’s campaign promise to the far-left, Reuters reported:

Under the U.S. federal oil and gas leasing program, the Interior Department is required to hold regular auctions of federal land for the oil and gas drilling industry – an initiative intended to boost domestic energy self-sufficiency and raise money for public coffers.

One source said the report will discuss royalties and fees that drillers are required to pay for drilling on federal land, as well as non-competitive leasing – a controversial process where leases not sold at an auction can be sold directly to interested companies during the following two years.

About a quarter of the nation’s oil and gas comes from federal leases and the program raises billions of dollars for federal and state budgets.

The review is another step taken in Biden’s war on American energy independence.

In this Aug. 21, 2017 file photo, workers make sure that each section of the Enbridge replacement Line 3 that is joined passes muster in Superior, Wisc. The sponsor of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline says it’s pulling the plug on the contentious project, Wednesday, June 9, 2021, after Canadian officials failed to persuade the Biden administration to reverse its cancellation of the company’s permit. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP)

Biden canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline in January, encouraged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate oil companies for “anti-competitive behavior,” and has allowed Russia to supply Europe with oil, a slap in the face to American oil producers.

Biden is also weighing whether to cancel the Line 5 Michigan pipeline.

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