In what could be his final act of defiance President Biden blocking more than 600 million acres of offshore areas from from future oil and gas drilling.
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00:00In what could be his final act of defiance, President Biden blocking more than 600 million
00:05acres of offshore area from future oil and gas drilling.
00:11Unlike most executive orders that Trump could overturn with a simple stroke of a pen, Biden's
00:16actions rely on a little-known, rarely used provision in the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf
00:23Lands Act that cannot be undone.
00:27American Petroleum Institute President Mike Sommers sang in a statement, quote, we urge
00:32policy makers to use every tool at their disposal to reverse this politically motivated decision
00:38and restore a pro-American energy approach to federal leasing.
00:43Gas prices have hovered near four-year lows nationally just over $3 per gallon.