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.”
Never going to happen. Folks will revolt.
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.
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…
A ceasefire would lower prices faster but he’s not interested in either apparently.