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When he first took office, Mr. Biden suspended new federal oil and gas leases. Mr. Landry and other Republican-led states challenged the ban, and a different Louisiana federal judge ruled in their favor — forcing the Biden administration to move forward with lease sales. It complied, opening more than 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling, a record amount.
There are 9000 leases that have been currently awarded. Why are the oil companies not drilling.
Simple, they make more money holding back the supply.