Cathy McMorris Rogers, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and John Barrasso, Chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, letter To the US General Accounting Office with a request to review how US President Joe Biden’s administration is using strategic oil reserves.
In the letter, it is stated that the reason for such a request is that Biden released 180 million barrels of oil from the country’s reserves and that this decision has possible consequences for the energy security of the USA.
Earlier it was known that the volume of strategic oil reserves in 2023. decreased It was more than 30% and amounted to 368 million barrels. This has become an anti-record since 1983. According to the agency, if in mid-spring 2022 the United States was supplied with 76.5% of the maximum possible level (727 million barrels) of raw materials, currently storage capacity has decreased to 50.6%.