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HOW AND WHY BIDEN DESTROYED THE STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE

President Joe Biden convenes the fourth virtual leader-level meeting of the
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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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