Ted Cruz, Joe Manchin, launch bill to stop Biden from selling more US oil reserves to China

[rangerrebew]

Ted Cruz, Joe Manchin, launch bill to stop Biden from selling more US oil reserves to China
"The reserve is, above-all, meant to help the United States and our allies through difficult times, not to help China power its economy."

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Ted Cruz, Joe Manchin, launch bill to stop Biden from selling more US oil reserves to China
 
Joshua Young
Youngsville North Carolina
Feb 3, 2023
 

On Wednesday, a bipartisan team of legislators, including Democrat Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia and GOP Senator Ted Cruz from Texas, introduced a bill that would prevent Joe Biden from selling off any more barrels of America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to China called the Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act.

Mancin said in a statement, "The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a vital piece of our nation’s infrastructure that bolsters our energy and national security. While the reserve has been a policy Band-Aid for rising gas prices and the global unrest caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the reserve is, above all, meant to help the United States and our allies through difficult times, not to help China power its economy."

Manchin added, "This bill would ensure that we are not risking our energy security by selling our petroleum reserves to China, and the bipartisan support this legislation has received shows just how important it is for America to be energy secure and independent."

https://thepostmillennial.com/ted-cruz-joe-manchin-launch-bill-to-stop-biden-from-selling-more-us-oil-reserves-to-china?utm_campaign=64487

[DefiantMassRINO]

Future withdrawals from the National Stretegic Pertoleum Reserve should be contingent on restarting energy exploration, development, trasnport, and refining projects already in progress, but in regulatory limbo.

In order for today's oil to leave the SPR, there needs to be a plan to re-fill it with future domestic oil production.

[christian]

i so totally agree, now that the barn has burnt down and the ashes are cold, we need to organize a fire brigade and start fighting this fire!
 

[catfish1957]

While I am 100% behind this, as it (SPR to Chicoms) shouldn't have taken place in the first place, having the two biggest opportunistic grandstanders in the senate pushing it?