We have been over this before, so lets try again.
The House Committee on Natural Resources revealed that the time it takes to obtain a permit for oil and gas exploration on state lands is about 12 to 15 days, but that it takes about 307 days to permit for onshore drilling on federal land.
The permits approved in 2021 were mostly permits that had been started in 2020 while Trump was president. The 2017 permits were started under obama who was also not enthusiastic about oil drilling.
While we are at it the 9,000 permit stat has now been reduced to 6,000.