Republican leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee demanded answers from the Biden administration Thursday on how its oil stockpile releases are weakening U.S. national security.
The Biden administration’s decision to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) has given key adversaries — namely China, Russia and Middle Eastern oil producers — “geopolitical leverage” over the U.S., Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton wrote to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm in a letter first obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. McMorris Rodgers and Upton noted that while the U.S. has drained reserves, China has filled their stockpile up using cheap Russian oil.
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