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U.S. energy chief says Biden would veto House Republican bill on oil reserve

January 23, 20231:50 PM Reuters0 Comments

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U.S. President Joe Biden

President Joe Biden will veto a bill by U.S. House of Representatives Republicans on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) if it passes Congress, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said on Monday.

In a letter last week, Granholm warned Republicans that limiting the Democratic president’s authority to tap the nation’s oil reserves would undermine national security, cause crude oil shortages, and raise gasoline prices.

“He will not allow the American people to suffer because of the backwards agenda that House Republicans are advancing” Granholm, speaking to reporters at a White House briefing, said of Biden.

The bill, called HR21, would require an administration that taps the SPR to advance a plan to increase oil and gas leasing on federal lands, unless the release is for a severe oil supply emergency.

Biden tapped the SPR repeatedly last year in response to oil prices that jumped due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and as travel increased as the COVID-19 pandemic eased.

Biden announced last March a record 180 million-barrel sale over six months that drove the reserve’s level to its lowest since late 1983. The Energy Department this month rejected the first batch of bids from oil companies to resupply a small amount of oil to the SPR.

Despite that rejection, Granholm said she is confident the United States will be able to refill the SPR and save taxpayers money by buying oil at a lower price than the government originally purchased the supplies.

“The offers that we received did not meet specification or price,” the secretary said. She said the administration would soon announce how it will buy back some initial replenishment oil for the reserve.

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