- Eliminate 96.3% of the nation’s offshore lands from consideration for even limited oil and gas leasing.
- Administer the program such that active leases comprise <1% of the nation’s offshore lands.
- Ignore the significant oil and gas potential of arctic and subarctic Alaska, the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Eastern Gulf of Mexico (where the best prospects are >125 miles from the coast of Florida).
- Ignore the national security implications of the diminished leasing program while concurrently depleting the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
- Discount the economic risks associated with international hostilities.
- Despite compelling evidence to the contrary, assume declines in oil and gas demand are imminent. .
- Irrationally believe that offshore wind is a replacement for, rather than a complement to, oil and gas.
- On the basis of speculative endangered species information, impose severe restrictions on oil and gas operations (but not on any other commercial activities).
- Defer to the climate office on critical leasing policy decisions.
- Only hold lease sales that are (per legislation) required precursors to offshore wind leasing.
- To justify reduced leasing, contend that more leasing would not decrease oil prices. Take the opposite position (Sale 257) to argue that leasing will decrease prices and thus increase demand and GHG emissions.
- Contrary to the regulations and without public comment, issue oil and gas leases to a company that is solely interested in developing them for carbon sequestration purposes.
Bud's Offshore Energy (BOE) 
Amen!!!