Biden desperately needs more oil, so why is he canceling leases?

Published May 19, 2022 4:01am ET




In multiple recent appearances, President Joe Biden has knowingly repeated an untruthful statement about the amount of oil being produced in the United States at this time. Over and over again, he has said either that the U.S. is producing record amounts of oil per day or that it is “approaching” record levels of production.

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