President Joe Biden’s regulators have approved new oil and gas wells at a far faster pace than the Trump administration did during its first 21 months in office - a fact that undermines Republican election-year arguments about the causes of this year’s high gasoline prices. In fact, the Biden administration has outpaced Trump in issuing drilling permits on public lands and water in its first year, according to federal data analyzed by the Center for Biological Diversity.” As a Vox report explained in March, “Biden has done nothing to halt oil leasing. As we discussed several months ago, the administration has done largely the opposite. The problem, of course, is that those who’ve argued that the Democratic president has slowed energy production are completely wrong. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and the Republican National Committee - have argued that the White House has deliberately forced prices higher as part of some kind of nefarious plot that only the right understands. Some prominent GOP voices - including Sen. oil and gas production, forcing prices higher. The message many voters have heard from Republicans for months is that the Biden administration has curtailed U.S.
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