Biden Administration Cancels Drilling Sales in Alaska and Gulf of Mexico

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Oil and Gas Drilling:
48% : Frank Macchiarola, a senior vice president at the American Petroleum Institute, a trade group that represents oil and gas companies, said in a statement that he would "urge the administration to end the uncertainty" for the oil industry and issue the five year plan.
47% : At the same time, he has taken steps to increase oil supplies to try to bring down gas prices, including calling on the oil industry to pump more crude.
47% : The overwhelming scientific consensus is that the Earth is warming due largely to greenhouse gases produced when oil, gas and coal are burned.
43% : Even though any lease sale would not produce oil and gas in time to alleviate current high energy prices, Republicans and oil industry leaders on Thursday seized on the cancellation of lease sales to claim Mr. Biden's actions were exacerbating the pain felt by consumers.
15% : Mr. Graves and other Republicans as well as oil industry leaders also criticized the Biden administration for failing so far to issue a new five-year offshore drilling plan.

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