There are more leases being drilled than at any time in the past by percentage, you should actually read the article I linked to.
The reality is, Brandon has lied to you again. He first tried to make you believe that inflation that has been building for a year was "transitory" and caused by logistics issues, then tried to pretend that printing and spending more money on a non-infrastructure "infrastructure" would actually lower inflation (in-frickin'-sane), then tried to tell you it was truck drivers' fault, then tried to tell you it was "greedy companies" and now is trying to tell you it is Russia's fault when only 2% of our gasoline comes from that source, and when it is shown that it is a lie, he just blames it on someone else. The buck never stops in Brandon's administration, nothing that demented child-king does could possibly affect the nation he "leads"... He is King of the Fools. They'll believe anything he says regardless of reality. Thankfully only about 35% of the nation are that foolish.
You can't have it both ways, Brandon... you can't actively work to end fossil fuels and also pretend that nothing you have done could possibly affect their production.
It doesn't matter how much or how little oil the US produces because the global market is controlled by OPEC.
So if we quadrupled production in the US, OPEC would just reduce their production by the same amount in order to maintain the price per barrel.
Now, if OPEC sees increased US production as an offense, they could ramp up their own production, bottom out the oil market, and cause as many bankruptcies in the domestic oil industry as there were in 2015-16 when they last increased production as a response to US production increases which dropped the price per barrel from $96 in 2014 to $52 in 2015.
You fucking idiots think the US is magic when it comes to the oil market and that if we increase production it will mean cheaper gas when that simply isn't the case and never has been.
It's not in an oil company's financial interest to increase production because that would result in a lowering of the price per barrel, and thus a lowering of their revenues and profits.
Yes some companies drill to many risky projects. Big deal there are about 9,000 independent oil and natural gas producers in the United States.