{"id":2025130,"date":"2023-09-07T19:41:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T23:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-under-fire-for-unlawful-cancellation-of-oil-leases-as-prices-hit-highest-point-of-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T19:44:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T23:44:24","slug":"biden-under-fire-for-unlawful-cancellation-of-oil-leases-as-prices-hit-highest-point-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-under-fire-for-unlawful-cancellation-of-oil-leases-as-prices-hit-highest-point-of-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden faces criticism over &#8216;illegal&#8217; oil lease cancellations amid 2023 price surge."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-under-fire-for-unlawful-cancellation-of-oil-leases-as-prices-hit-highest-point-of-2023%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2025130&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Aaron Lewis Strikes a Chord with &#8220;Am I the Only One?&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>In July 2021, Aaron\u2063 Lewis released his first solo of the \u200dyear, \u201cAm I the Only One?\u201d Two weeks later, the song hit the top spot on the Billboard \u200cchart for Hot\u200d Country Songs, according\u200d to <a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/aaron-lewis-am-i-the-only-one-country-charts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loudwire<\/a>. It also debuted in \u2062the Top\u200c 15 \u200dof the Hot 100.<\/p>\n<p>In \u200dother words, it struck \u2064a nerve in the American people.<\/p>\n<p>A\u2063 little over two years later, the song still resonates:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Am\u2063 I the only one here tonight<br \/>Shakin\u2019 my head and \u200cthinkin\u2019\u2064 somethin\u2019 ain\u2019t right<br \/>Is\u2062 it just me?\u200c Am I losin\u2019 my mind?<br \/>Am I standin\u2019 on the edge of \u200dthe end of\u2063 time?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One thing has changed \u2014 I \u2063don\u2019t think I\u2019m\u2063 the only one who believes the Biden administration\u200d is hellbent \u2064on destroying America.<\/p>\n<h3>Biden Administration Cancels Oil Leases \u2063in Alaska<\/h3>\n<p>In the\u200b latest move to undermine the country, President Joe Biden and his \u200cteam <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.gov\/pressreleases\/biden-harris-administration-takes-major-steps-protect-arctic-lands-and-wildlife-alaska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> \u2063Wednesday they\u200d will cancel\u2064 oil leases in Alaska\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-deals-another-blow-oil-gas-industry-suspends-leases-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arctic National Wildlife \u2063Refuge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The move will block new drilling on millions of acres at a time when gas prices are at their highest level of the year and\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysts-expect-crude-oil-prices-to-keep-rising-throughout-the-year\/\" title=\"Analysts expect crude oil prices to keep rising throughout the year\">crude oil prices<\/a> are surging, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/oil-prices-take-a-breather-after-9-day-winning-streak-pushes-crude-to-2023-highs-72369912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MarketWatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why would the Biden \u2063administration make such a move? I\u2019m not the only one who thinks it\u2019s crazy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese decisions \u2062are illegal, reckless, defy all common \u2062sense, and are the latest signs\u200b of an incoherent energy policy \u2062from President Biden,\u201d Alaska\u200c GOP Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/video-lisa-murkowski-announces-will-not-vote-confirm-scotus-nominee-election-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lisa\u200c Murkowski<\/a> declared in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.murkowski.senate.gov\/press\/release\/delegation-alaska-leaders-biden-administration-puts-american-energy-security-at-risk-harms-the-state-and-alaska-native-communities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Murkowski is an on-again-off-again Republican who is often courted by Democrats for her vote. For her to \u200dsound\u2063 off against the Biden administration is \u200ctelling.<\/p>\n<p>In the same news release, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/alaska-lawmakers-bidens-energy-move-not-hurts-alaskans-illegal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Sullivan<\/a>, Alaska\u2019s other \u200dRepublican senator, said, \u201cNot\u2062 only is this \u200can \u200baffront to the rule of law, it\u2019s also a grave injustice to the Inupiat people of the\u200b North Slope, especially the people of Kaktovik \u2014 the only village \u2062in ANWR.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/09\/06\/biden-to-cancel-trumps-oil-drilling-leases-in-alaskan-nature-refuge-00114243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>, Sullivan told reporters on Capitol Hill that Biden officials \u201clove to talk about racial equity,\u2062 racial justice, environmental justice, \u200ctaking care of\u2064 people \u200cof color, but one big exception \u2014 \u2063the Indigenous\u2064 people of Alaska. They screw \u2019em \u2064every time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan is \u2063spot-on \u200cexcept for one point. The Indigenous people of Alaska are not the only ones \u2063getting the shaft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ehrlich-perfect-response-progressives-try-take-moral-high-ground\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Progressives<\/a> have made a concerted \u200ceffort to appropriate the word \u201cjustice\u201d in an effort to subvert its meaning. They claim the\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-jr-tells-gop-to-get-tough-if-democrats-are-playing-hardball-then-we-got-to-play-hardball\/\" title=\"Trump Jr. Tells GOP To Get Tough: If Democrats Are \u2018Playing Hardball\u2019 Then \u2018We Got To Play Hardball\u2019\">moral high ground<\/a> while at the \u2063same time disdaining \u200bmorality. For progressives, \u2062there\u2062 is no justice and therefore\u200c no \u2062morality. There is only power.<\/p>\n<p>Randy Ruaro, \u200dexecutive\u2062 director of\u200b the Alaska Industrial Development and Export \u200dAuthority,\u2064 agrees. \u200cHe attested in the Murkowski news \u200brelease \u2062that the Biden administration\u2019s cancellation \u2063of the leases was an \u201carbitrary\u2063 disregard for \u200bFederal law,\u200d based on campaign trail rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2023\/09\/06\/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-protecting-arctic-lands-and-wildlife-in-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> on the\u200c move, Biden boasted that he has \u201cdelivered on the most ambitious climate and\u200d conservation agenda in our country\u2019s \u200bhistory. But \u200cthere is \u200dmore to do, and my administration will continue to take bold \u200baction to \u2063meet the \u2062urgency of the climate crisis and to protect \u200bour lands and \u2063waters for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interior Secretary Deb Haaland \u200bexpressed similar sentiments \u200bin her statement. \u201cWith climate \u2062change warming \u2064the Arctic more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet, we \u200bmust do everything within our control to meet the highest standards \u2063of care to protect this fragile\u2063 ecosystem,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The president and\u2062 his team are pandering to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-under-fire-for-unlawful-cancellation-of-oil-leases-as-prices-hit-highest-point-of-2023\/\" title=\"Biden faces criticism over 'illegal' oil lease cancellations amid 2023 price surge.\">radical leftist base \u2014 ideological globalists dreaming<\/a> of world domination. When it \u2063comes to\u2064 the \u200benvironment, their \u2064motto\u200d is, \u201cThe sky \u200bis falling. The sky is falling\u201d \u2014 thus the Alaska move.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, progressives\u2062 don\u2019t care about anything but power. Their hypocrisy on\u2064 the\u200d subject of Native Americans is \u200dthere for all to see.<\/p>\n<p>Charles \u200bLampe, president \u2062of \u200bthe Kaktovik I\u00f1upiat Corporation, knows as much.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to express our utter \u2064shock and\u2063 disappointment\u2063 of Secretary Haaland\u2019s decision today,\u201d Lampe said in\u200d the Murkowski news release. \u201cWe\u2063 live\u200b in\u2062 the Arctic! We are the Arctic!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People who\u200d live on\u2062 the land know the rhythms of nature better \u2062than any government official in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Lampe wasn\u2019t finished.\u00a0\u201cAnd for you to tell us\u2063 about our region in the \u200dname of climate change is outrageous!\u201d he said. \u201cFor an Administration that touts its \u2063focus on working with Indigenous People from our perspective, it is doing the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are \u2064a subsistence culture \u200dand \u2062are working hard to collect enough food to feed our community \u2063through whaling,\u201d Lampe \u2063continued. \u200c\u201cWe \u200cdon\u2019t \u200chave the time or\u200b energy to address this\u200c action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In \u2064her Wednesday announcement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/navajo-landowners-roll-bidens-interior-secretary-awesome-2-word-demand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haaland<\/a> claimed the decision was based \u2062on \u201cthe \u2063best\u200b available science and in recognition of the Indigenous Knowledge of \u2063the original stewards of\u2063 this area, to safeguard our public lands for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haaland is a Native American\u200b of the Pueblo\u200d Laguna who has apparently turned her back on indigenous peoples \u2062for political power.<\/p>\n<p>She has bought into the politicized\u2063 climate change rhetoric because that\u2019s what the in-crowd in\u2064 D.C. \u2063does. It\u2019s \u200cthat simple.<\/p>\n<p>The need for \u2062oil\u2063 is not going to\u2064 go anywhere soon. Cutting U.S. production when fuel prices are at their highest in 2023 only \u200dserves to make Americans \u2064poorer and the country more dependent on foreign countries \u2014 including America\u2019s enemies \u2014 \u200dfor oil.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s \u200dmore,\u2062 the nation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/100-crude-in-2023-oil-and-gas-prices-expected-to-surge-again\/\" title=\"In 2023, 0 Crude Oil and Gas Prices Set to Increase Again\">emergency oil stockpiles<\/a> are at 40-year lows under the Biden administration, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/07\/12\/business\/gas-prices-oil-emergency-reserve\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>. Nevertheless, in \u200cJuly, Energy Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-energy-secretary-quietly-consulted-china-days-heavily-criticized-move\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jennifer\u200c Granholm<\/a> claimed the administration\u2063 will refill the\u200b depleted Strategic Petroleum Reserve if Biden gets \u200ca \u2064second term. \u200bTalk about campaign trail\u2064 rhetoric.\u200c What a crock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAm I the only\u2063 one not brainwashed?\u201d Lewis sings. No, there are \u2063plenty of\u2064 Americans who see what\u2019s happening. The theme of his\u200c song, as I see it, is that no, you\u2019re not alone if you think America is under attack \u2063from within.<\/p>\n<p>The progressives, however, want you to feel \u2062alone if you don\u2019t agree with them. They want you to think you\u2019re crazy. They want you to be scared.\u200d Don\u2019t allow them to manipulate you.<\/p>\n<p>Globalism\u200d is inherently Marxist, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tucker-asks-trump-question-back-everyones-mind-heading-toward-civil-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marxism<\/a> is the\u200b archenemy of the \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/red-alert-top-democrat-proposes-28th-amendment-constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Marxism\u2063 has no home here. If you believe that, you\u2019re not\u200d alone. Resist.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-fire-unlawful-cancellation-oil-leases-prices-hit-highest-point-2023\/\">Biden \u200cUnder\u200d Fire for \u200d&#8217;Unlawful\u2062 Cancellation&#8217; of Oil \u200dLeases\u2062 as Prices\u200b Hit Highest Point\u200b of \u20632023<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2021, Aaron Lewis dropped his solo track &#8220;Am I the Only One?&#8221; Within two weeks, it soared to the number one position on the Hot Country Songs chart and made a strong debut in the Top 15 of the Hot 100. 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