As he campaigned for president in 2020, Joe Biden made a bold promise at a New Hampshire town hall, adding repetition for emphasis: “No more drilling on federal lands. Period. Period. Period. Period.” […] The Biden administration has now outpaced the Trump administration in approving permits for drilling on public lands, and the United States is producing more oil than any country ever has.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/08/16/biden-oil-drilling-production/ :
He said he was going to do what he said he would do.
Not that he wouldn’t do things he said he wouldn’t do.