WH Spox Kirby: We Need to Lessen Dependence on OPEC, That's Why Biden Issued Drilling Leases, and Is 'Working So Hard on Clean Energy'
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” White House NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said that the United States needs to be less dependent on foreign oil and that’s why President Biden “has issued more leases now, thousands more leases for drilling here in the continental United States that oil-producing companies haven’t taken advantage of fully.” And why he’s “working so hard on clean energy solutions.
Co-host Dana Perino asked, “The United States, under President Biden, has been releasing a million barrels of oil per day from our emergency Strategic Petroleum Reserve.And it’s also why the President has issued more leases now, thousands more leases for drilling here in the continental United States that oil-producing companies haven’t taken advantage of fully.