Trump promotes offshore drilling

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President-elect Donald Trump vowed to overturn the incumbent President Joe Biden’s ban of offshore drilling, but will face legal obstacles to do so, Al Arabiya News’ Washington Correspondent Nick Harper says.   #Trump #USA

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00:00We heard Drill, Baby Drill, his motto.

00:03Are we all surprised that he's going to overturn this decision by Biden?

00:08No, no surprise at all.

00:09That Drill, Baby Drill has become a catchphrase of his.

00:12It came to light during the course of the election,

00:15really that desire to ramp up domestic production of oil and gas

00:20right across the United States.

00:22He says that that is pivotal to US manufacturing, to US jobs,

00:26to really US standing on the world stage,

00:30to become self-reliant on oil and gas production,

00:34to increase that as much as possible.

00:36But complicating those efforts was Joe Biden's announcement,

00:40an executive order on Monday,

00:42which will ban any new offshore drilling for oil and gas,

00:47really covering the vast majority of the US's coastline,

00:51about 625 million acres.

00:55There is a wrinkle in all of this.

00:57Joe Biden has made it very difficult

00:59for the incoming president to overturn this.

01:01He used a Lands Act dating back to the 1950s

01:06and set no end date.

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