As others have pointed out, drilling new oil wells takes years, there are already plenty of unused drillilng permits, and if we don't decarbonize we're all going to roast. To the extent that we "need more gas," this is entirely due to the fact that we are fifty years behind on switching away from fossil fuels, courtesy of the very people now yelling for more drilling. So you can safely dismiss any rhetoric about drilling as GOP/fossil fuel industry propaganda.
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