Source: United States Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
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BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) issued the following statement in response to President Biden directing the Department of Energy to release 50 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve:
“Releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is absolutely not the solution to bringing high gas prices down. The SPR is meant for supplying energy during national emergencies. The only national emergency is President Biden’s awful energy policy in which he has purposefully curtailed American production and then embarrassingly pleaded OPEC to make up the difference. It’s clear to me the Biden Administration doesn’t know they need to provide regulatory certainty and embrace domestic energy production if we want to see lower prices at the gas pump and then everything else in the value chain. But we all know this a non-starter for an administration hellbent on destroying North Dakota’s excellence and America’s energy dominance.”