'Instead of holding accountable Big Oil CEOs for causing last year's record-setting gas prices, the new majority is hellbent on making political statements as American families suffer.'
But Joshua Axelrod, a senior advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council who focuses on public lands, noted in aMonday that "despite its title, the bill neither responds to any existing problem nor advances any coherent or achievable energy policy."
"Put more clearly: If 1% of the SPR is to be drawn down, a plan to lease 1% of available public lands or offshore areas must first be developed," Axelrod added, cautioning that—if passed—the measure would "lock in another century of oil and gas.
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