However, I’ve watched two different interviews were an “oil executive” was specifically asked about the Administrations claim of 9000 unused oil leases. In both cases, they completely ignored the question and went on to other issues.
There may be valid reasons why these leases are unusable. But, completely ignoring the question and not provided some rebuttal to the administrations claims, seriously undermined their credibility and leaves the Administrations claims unchallenged.
I researched those leases. Lot of them are tied up in state red tape by counties, cities or Eco/Climate change groups, Sierra etc. Also, in ones that can drill w/o red tape, they have supply issues to start up, labor shortage etc. You can’t just start up a drill site after its been shut down for years.
Yes, they should be calling Biden out on those 9K available drilling leases.