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(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Share * * * * * * * * 178 By Andrew Follett * About Andrew Follett April 9, 2024 6:30 AM 178 Comments Listen Instead of unleashing more American energy, Biden has chosen to use America’s emergency reserves to solve his own political problems. Last Wednesday, President Biden’s Department of Energy (DOE) canceled a pair of oil purchases to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), leaving America’s energy reserves dangerously low at a time of global uncertainty. The DOE originally planned to buy oil at $79 per barrel. But oil prices have stubbornly refused to cooperate and remain above $86 per barrel, leading the DOE to cancel the purchase. When former president Donald Trump attempted to fill the SPR to the brim when oil prices were at a rock-bottom price of $24 a barrel, congressional Democrats blocked the purchase, claiming it would be an oil-industry ... 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