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[–] -4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

As he campaigned for president in 2020, Joe Biden made a bold promise at a New Hampshire town hall, adding repetition for emphasis: “No more drilling on federal lands. Period. Period. Period. Period.” […] The Biden administration has now outpaced the Trump administration in approving permits for drilling on public lands, and the United States is producing more oil than any country ever has. […] The reality is the United States is already dominant. The country is expected to produce 13.2 million barrels of oil per day on average this year — millions of barrels more than Saudi Arabia or Russia. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/08/16/biden-oil-drilling-production/

The slightly-lesser evil is still omnicidally evil.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They did try an end to drilling permits, and lost in court — the US court system considers drilling rights to be a property right once you have a lease, so you can't easily just say no.

    They then cut the issuance of leases to the congressionally-mandated minimum.

    numerical non-graph form of the data is here

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