"America went into the worst energy crisis in decades with an emergency stockpile that was half what it should have been, because the previous president raided it for midterm votes."
. . . "Joe Biden sold 180 million barrels of America's emergency oil reserve to buy himself a midterm election.
"Now Trump is fighting a war in the Middle East with the stockpile Biden left half-empty.
"And this week it fell below 300 million barrels – the lowest level since Ronald Reagan was in his first term.
"The SPR was never meant to be a campaign prop.
"Gerald Ford signed it into law in 1975 after OPEC cut off America's oil during the Yom Kippur War – the idea being that if hostile nations ever tried to strangle us again, we'd have a cushion.
"For decades, the reserve sat near capacity – 726 million barrels at its peak in 2009.
"Biden inherited 638 million barrels.
"He left office with less than 400 million – after draining the reserve in 2022 at the precise moment Democrats needed to hold Congress." . . .
"Biden sure wasn't running one.
His plan was to sell the reserve to 2022 voters at $75 a barrel, pocket the political goodwill, and leave the consequences for whoever came next.
"Whoever came next was Donald Trump.
"That is Joe Biden's legacy on energy security – not wind turbines or solar panels or the rhetoric.' . . . More...
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