{"id":600716,"date":"2023-01-30T09:20:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T09:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=600716"},"modified":"2023-02-09T09:14:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T09:14:37","slug":"gop-u-s-house-passes-bill-opening-more-public-land-to-development-if-reserve-oil-is-tapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/gop-u-s-house-passes-bill-opening-more-public-land-to-development-if-reserve-oil-is-tapped","title":{"rendered":"GOP U.S. House passes bill opening more public land to development if reserve oil is tapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Joe Raedle\/Getty Images) U.S. House Republicans passed a bill Friday to force the White House to make more federal land and waters available for oil and gas development if the president orders the withdrawal of more oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The bill, passed 221-205 , mostly along party lines, would strip the president&#8217;s power to remove oil from the reserve unless the U.S. Energy Department has a plan to allow new leasing on federal lands and waters for oil exploration. The vote comes after a volatile two years for gas prices, which have spiked and fallen in response to several factors. President Joe Biden sought to reduce price spikes by selling record amounts from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the federally controlled stockpile of crude oil housed in underground salt caverns along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Texas. The bill would require that the percentage of federal lands and waters opened to leasing is the same<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. House Republicans passed a bill Friday to force the White House to make more federal land and waters available for oil and gas development if the president orders the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}