White House fires back at GOP claims Biden admin is selling SPR oil to China: 'Ridiculous and false'

[mystery-ak]

 July 22, 2022 3:13pm EDT
White House fires back at GOP claims Biden admin is selling SPR oil to China: 'Ridiculous and false'
White House says Biden has no involvement in the sale, and DOE is required to sell to highest bidder

By Brooke Singman | Fox News

    EXCLUSIVE: The White House on Friday said Republican claims that the Biden administration is funneling oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to foreign countries — specifically China — are "ridiculous and false," while stressing that President Biden has "had no personal involvement" in the process of private companies selling crude oil "whatsoever."

Reports earlier this month suggested that more than 5 million barrels of oil released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve have been diverted to European and Asian nations instead of U.S. refiners, prompting GOP criticisms.

"Some Republican members of Congress are suggesting that the president and the Biden administration are funneling oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to specific foreign companies for nefarious reasons," White House spokesman Ian Sams told Fox News Friday.

"This accusation is ridiculous and false, and if they took the initiative to examine some basic facts, they would see that."

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[GtHawk]

Kind of hard to sell the idea that selling oil to a chicom company owned by the chicom state is not selling oil to China. And it still leaves the stench of selling American oil that Americans need both for our strategic reserves and current American needs, it smells as bad as Biden after spending a whole day in his poopy Depends.

[Killer Clouds]

Why is any oil being sold to anyone other than US suppliers at all?