#shorts On 1/26/2023, On 1/26/2023, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said, “The nation, back in the 1970s, said, ‘We’re going to have a Strategic Petroleum Reserve.’ In essence, an American piggy bank to protect our country in case there is a major disruption in world markets in energy production in America. Maybe there’s a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico that limits our ability to produce energy for a brief period of time. That’s why we have a Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It’s not there to go mask your bad policies.

“Yet, that’s what we’ve seen from this President. As you can see, this President has raided more than 40 percent of America’s strategic reserve, our piggy bank. He’s just taken it away. In some cases, he actually sold that oil to China! We came together last week, Republicans and Democrats – the press actually said it was going to be a partisan exercise. Why even waste the time? But what they found out is, not only did every Republican say it’s wrong to raid our piggy bank in America and sell it to China, a majority of Democrats actually agreed with us and sent that bill to the Senate. “

On 1/26/2023, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) delivered a speech on the House Floor in support of the Strategic Production Response Act, which would require the Biden Administration to stop their abuse of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and increase oil and gas production to offset any additional drawdowns. Leader Scalise slammed the Biden Administration’s reckless decision to raid the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and for issuing a veto threat on the bill. Additionally, Leader Scalise highlighted how President Biden’s radical climate policies have raised gas prices and made the United States more reliant on foreign countries for oil.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/ERAxPQMZsUs
Scalise: Petroleum Reserve is not there to go mask your bad policies