'Groundhog Day': Biden, GOP revive decades-old energy fight

In this 2008 photo, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi checks out a graph illustrating that gasoline prices had continued to rise despite more oil and gas drilling as then-House Natural Resources Chair Nick Rahall speaks. | CQ Roll Call via AP Images

By Mike Soraghan

03/18/2022 08:01 PM EDT

With the price of gasoline heading north of $4 a gallon, Democrats’ reluctance to call for more oil drilling was becoming increasingly unpopular. So, they started talking about the thousands of permits to drill on public land that oil companies weren’t even using.

It was the summer of 2008 and Barack

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