Dems Active Obstruction of Keeping Strategic | Political News
Democrats’ recollections/skill to recall on who is accountable for the depletion of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve appears to be malfunctioning at an alarming price.
As my colleague Ward Clark wrote on Monday, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and congressional Dems weren’t hiding their hypocrisy over their calls for that the Trump administration let unfastened barrels of oil proper now because of fuel costs spiking over the battle with Iran:
In his latest show of abject hypocrisy, he’s demanding that President Trump open the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to deal with the current spike in fuel costs ensuing from Operation Epic Fury. The catch? Senator Schumer blocked the first Trump administration from filling the reserve with oil at $29 a barrel, when now it is over $100.
CA Gov. Gavin Newsom hasn’t been a lot better in that division, unsurprisingly, as RedState shared on Wednesday.
READ MORE: Burgum Takes Newsom to the Cleaners on CA’s Gas Prices, Then the Oil and Gas Assoc. Finishes Him Off
Hypocritical Dem Leader Blocked SPR Fill at $29 – Now Demands Opening the Taps
It’s even worse than that, though, and Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) is asking the Energy Department to look into what seems to be purely political strikes by Biden in releasing huge numbers of barrels to decrease fuel costs – not once but twice: (emphasis added)
Cotton, in a letter first obtained by Fox News Digital to Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright, charged that the Biden administration launched 180 million barrels from the nation’s reserves in 2022 “to suppress gas prices ahead of the midterm elections.”
“That decision drained the reserve to a 40-year low,” Cotton wrote. “The decision to drain the SPR was not a response to a supply emergency; it was a deliberate political act designed to protect Democrats from the consequences of their own failed energy policies.”
Biden tapped the reserve twice — once in 2021 to relieve hovering fuel costs as the nation still grappled with the financial fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and again the next 12 months to fight elevated power prices at the onset of the battle between Russia and Ukraine.
RedState wrote extensively on the Biden strikes, significantly the one in ’21. We identified that releasing barrels of oil barely helps on a regular basis Americans with fuel costs, and it helped Russia more than anybody. And oh yeah, readers would possibly keep in mind when the Biden administration determined it could be a good concept to promote practically a million barrels from the dwindling reserves to China.
READ MORE:Republicans Formally Investigating Biden Admin for Selling Strategic Reserve Oil to China
The Biden Administration Got Absolutely Played After Release of Oil From the Strategic Reserves
Cotton also writes about the leftists’ blatant undermining of home oil manufacturing during the Biden time period, which harm our skill to keep the reserve at a secure stage.
He also said that in 2021, Biden signed an government order that halted new oil and fuel leases on federal lands and offshore, which Cotton charged “constrained domestic production while the administration was draining the reserve.”
Luckily, one of the priorities of the second Trump administration has been to work on reversing the injury, as we wrote in April 2025 about Sec. Wright confirming they “would continue to refill the Reserve” as long as he is in charge at DoE.
This distinction in coverage from the Democrat Party is important to keep entrance of thoughts as we transfer nearer to the midterms then 2028; they can’t be trusted to handle our nation’s financial or power stability. We need to keep pointing and laughing at their kabuki theater over fuel costs; their past conduct exhibits it is just the everyday trick they fight to pull, wanting it to seem to be they’re “doing something.”
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