On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, in response to a question about increasing domestic oil production, attempted to shift the blame to oil companies by citing “9,000 approved oil leases that the oil companies are not tapping into currently.”

While we may not appreciate the cynical attempt to deny the effects of the president’s own “no federal oil” policies, we appreciate that the White House suddenly wants American producers to develop on federal lands. After the Biden Administration spent over a year making it more difficult to develop on federal lands while begging Russia to increase its production, the admission—no matter how long it took to make—that American production is preferable to Russian is now welcome.