CEA Responds to DOI’s Draft 5-Year Leasing Plan Making No Guarantee of Lease Sales

Following the Department of the Interior’s recently released draft of the five-year plan, CEA President David Holt expressed concern that no lease sales is among the options being considered.
 
 “American families can no longer wait for real efforts to lower record high gasoline prices while inflation rages. Slow-footing a bureaucratic process is not helping American families and small businesses, and certainly is not in line with President Biden’s public commitment to do everything he can to bring gasoline and diesel prices down,” Holt said.
 
 “CEA encourages Congress to consider legislation that will require competitive annual lease sales. Americans and our allies can wait no longer for real relief, and a serious energy policy that recognizes the national security, economic security, reliability and affordability that offshore leasing provides.”
 
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