President Joe Biden’s decision to release up to 15 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is an abuse aimed at using the world’s largest such resource to protect vulnerable Democrats from voter wrath over high gas prices.
That’s the view of a host of congressional Republicans reacting to the president’s move to release the crude oil from what was originally intended by Congress to be used only in a national emergency—such as a war in which America lost access to foreign energy sources.
