“President Biden approved more oil and gas drilling permits in his first two years in office than did former President Donald Trump,” Yahoo News reports.
“Despite that statistic, Republicans have routinely criticized Biden over his aversion to selling new oil and gas leases on federal land, which, in addition to the halting of construction of the Keystone XL pipeline project, they say resulted in a surge in gasoline prices after Russia invaded Ukraine in Feb. 2022.”
