GOP Demands More Domestic Energy Production to Refill Strategic Reserve

GOP Demands More Domestic Energy Production to Refill Strategic Reserve
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) attends a House hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on April 2, 2019. Zach Gibson/Getty Images
Joseph Lord
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The GOP has put forward legislation to increase domestic oil and natural gas production in response to President Joe Biden’s decisions to pull from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to stabilize skyrocketing gas prices.

After several prominent Democrats submitted a request that Biden pull from the SPR, the president obliged and announced his intention to draw from the nation’s oil reserves, which are usually reserved for worst-case scenarios.