The White House hasn’t considered boosting domestic oil production as it scrambles to think up solutions to address record gasoline prices, The Washington Post reported Friday.
Senior administration officials have mulled issuing millions of fuel rebate cards and invoking Cold War powers to prevent supply shortages, people familiar with internal discussions, who were granted anonymity to discuss private conversations, told WaPo. However, the high-level discussions appeared to leave out any policy that would incentivize greater oil drilling activity or lead to more federal lease sales.
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