President Joe Biden could lower prices at the pump for consumers if he would remove some of the barriers to oil and gas projects, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said.
"Alaska is awash in energy, but not able to capitalize on it," Dunleavy said in a news release.
The governor's comments come as oil prices rose to $134 a barrel days after Biden announced a ban on Russian oil imports.
Gas prices are averaging $4.33 a gallon nationwide and are higher in Alaska, where a gallon of gas costs $4.72, according to AAA.
Dunleavy criticized the Biden administration for not defending a federal court ruling that stopped the Willow Master Development Plan, which is being led by ConocoPhillips Alaska. The company first discovered oil in the area in 2017 and the project was approved.
It was stopped by a court order last year. The Bureau of Land Management reopened the comment period for the project, which ended Wednesday but its fate has not been decided.
"It is nearly shovel ready, could be built by 2025-2026, and would supply some 160,000 barrels of oil per day," the governor said of the project.
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We know we have it, we know it can be done easily and fast.......but halfwit said NO! He wants to brake the American people to submit to their idiotic green deal!
all by himself a man with half a brain decided the people must suffer because they don't agree with his agenda! I do wonder how the idiots who actually voted for him feel about all this?