“The U.S. oil and gas industry has "9,000 permits" on federal land that "they could be drilling right now" to increase production and lower prices.”
What FactCheck.org found
There were 9,173 approved and available permits for federal land by the end of 2021, but that’s not unusual, nor is it a quick process to start production on them.
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In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 8 March 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 March 2022, 9 days later. Its rating was “Not the Whole Story”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/03/08/remarks-by-president…
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