It's odd. Over the last year, I've read pretty regular criticisms, like
THIS one, or
THIS one of Biden's administration being no less favorable to oil & gas drilling than Trump, if not MORE favorable.
Maybe the reality is this country uses more oil and gas than it has, and despite having 20 some years to "reduce our dependence on foreign oil" under BOTH democratic and republican presidents, we're never actually going to do the things necessary to do this because our oil companies are more powerful than we understand or will admit, and so we're just going to continue on the way we're going until we eventually collapse, because there's simply NOT ENOUGH oil and gas within our borders, and so unless we reduce our DEMAND, increasing our supply to meet that demand is not realistic?
remember after 9/11, we needed to "reduce our dependence on foreign oil" and we had an extremely PRO-oil drilling Republican administration for another 7 years, and still never even took basic steps to doing that?