Energy

• Energy.“Congress is about to legislate that the U.S. government stop purchasing oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,” Heritage Foundation expert Ariel Cohen writes. “Some believe that this would bring gasoline prices down; in reality, however, shutting down the oil supply to the SPR would jeopardize the security of the United States, and infringe upon the executive authority of the President to ensure the nation's defense, while having no appreciate effect on gas prices. Congress should leave the SPR alone.”
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