Only in emergencies in the U.S.
That’s the intent of legislation meant to curb the use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The measure was introduced in the U.S. Senate by U.S. Senator James Lankford, U.S. Senator John Barrasso and others.
The Strategic Production Response Act requires that withdraws from the Strategic Reserve are limited to a severe energy supply interruption in the U.S., until the Secretary of the Department of the Interior issues a plan to increase American oil and gas production on federal lands and waters.
“It’s ridiculous that Biden would try to ‘cancel’ traditional energy production here at home and then propose using our emergency reserves of oil,” said Lankford. “We should not pull oil out of the public Strategic Petroleum Reserve without also increasing energy production on public lands. We should ensure the federal government can’t just beg OPEC and others for foreign oil while holding back domestic energy production. This is a yet another example of Biden putting his climate-change agenda over American jobs and energy independence. I will continue to stand against it.”
