Opinion: Biden’s disastrous oil and gas plan could not come at a worse time

About this time last year, the Wall Street Journal reported that, during his first 19 months in office, President Biden leased fewer federal lands for oil and gas development than only one other president since the end of World War II. From President Nixon on, it recounted, no other president leased fewer than 4.4 million acres, with President Reagan holding the record of 48 million acres leased in 1981 and 1982.