abstract:Lease and release is a temporary transfer (by sale) of title to real estate under real property law. Lease and release was "a mode of conveyance of freehold estates, formerly common in England and in New York, its place is now supplied by a simple deed of grant.
It also would offer incentives for renewable energy, require the government to release oil from its emergency reserve, and force oil companies to drill on federal lands they already lease from the government.