President Trump is asserting executive authority to demand California restart controversial offshore oil drilling along its coastline amid soaring gas prices during the war with Iran. Gov. Gavin Newsom quickly pledged legal action against the effort.

Trump is asserting executive authority to demand the controversial resumption of offshore oil drilling along California’s coastline as gas prices soar amid the ongoing war with Iran.

On Friday, Trump signed an executive order giving the Department of Energy the ability to use a Cold War-era law known as the Defense Production Act to accelerate oil and gas development.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright quickly responded with an order directing Sable Offshore Corp. to restore operations of the Santa Ynez Unit, which includes offshore oil rigs in federal waters and a network of pipelines that run along the Santa Barbara County coast and inland.

Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted the action as “an attempt to illegally restart a pipeline whose operators are facing criminal charges and prohibited by multiple court orders from restarting.”

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    9 hours ago

    So, these dumbfucks canceled solar subsidies and EV subsidies. Has attacked solar projects and wind projects. Effectively BANNED clean energy projects.

    And then start a war with Iran.

    If this is not just shit designed to make Big Fossil tons and tons and tons of cash, this is some real nine-dimensional chess right here.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
      27·
      14 hours ago

      Not only that, even if it did happen, it would be years before any economic benefit would occur. He thinks you can snap your fingers and have infrastructure.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        9 hours ago

        What’s so weird is that the guy pretends to be knowledgeable about such things due to being handed a real estate business from daddy.

        But he lost money at running a casino, so it’s pretty obvious what a galaxy-brained genius we are dealing with here…explains why he stands at a podium and screams things like “TARIFFS!” - literally, he did that. About ~30% of the country still claps like trained seals at such cogent expressions of how to run a country…