Republicans on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce have raised concerns about how the Biden administration’s oil reserve releases may impact U.S. national security.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wa.), the leading Republican lawmaker on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Rep. Fred Upton (R.-Mich.), the top Republican on the Subcommittee on Energy, said in a June 2 letter (pdf) to Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm that they are “concerned” that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is “rapidly depleting the nation’s petroleum reserves” in an attempt to alleviate energy shortages before the midterm elections in November, and that the Biden administration has failed to come up with a plan to maintain reserves over the long term.
