Saturday, January 7, 2023

After Announcing That They Will Refill The Strategic Oil Reserve, White House Balks At The Price That They Will Pay

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Zero Hedge: White House Delays Refill Of Strategic Oil Reserve, Balks At "Too Expensive" Offers 

The Biden administration had no problems aggressively draining the SPR by 1mmb/d at market prices in the immediate aftermath of the Ukraine war, in hopes of lowering the price of gasoline ahead of November's elections and avoiding an inflationary midterm rout. However, when it comes to refilling the SPR, now that US emergency inventories are down to the lowest level since November 1983 and not too far from an all time low which threatens the structural integrity of the salt caverns the oil is deposited in, the White House has "unexpectedly" gotten cold feet.  

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Update: After Depleting Oil Reserve, Biden’s Energy Department Refuses to Fill It Back Up (Sputnik)  

WNU Editor: It was only 3 weeks ago that the White House and the main stream media were pushing this news story .... White House Begins Plan to Refill US Emergency Oil Reserves (Bloomberg). Now that the White House is having "cold feet", with the exception of Zero Hedge and a few bloggers, no one is covering this story.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bidenites made this bed. They need to sleep in it.

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately we're all sleeping in it

RussInSoCal said...

One sop to the progressive base after another. The pipeline they closed on day 1 of this Junta would have delivered 900,000 bbls/day.

Trump tried to top off the Reserve at $24/bbl, Schumer called it a Big Oil Bail Out and stopped the process. Biden released another 15M in October, which is about ONE DAY's worth of our consumption (to swing the 2022 election). So now these econ-illiterates are shocked at the replacement price and now won't do it?


INDICTABLE,

R,

JohnWayne said...

Remember when Trump wanted to fill the reserves when oil was cheap. The Democrats complained it cost too much. Now here we are needing to fill the reserves at a higher price.