Today, the Biden administration announced that it is selling another 20 million barrels from the US oil reserve. It’s obvious at this point what the administration’s plan is- they are selling our nation’s future security in order to safeguard Democratic election chances by depleting our nation’s reserves of a vital war material.
When Biden took office, the US oil reserve was 638 million barrels. As of July 17, the US strategic oil reserve stood at 480 million barrels. In the 189 intervening days, there were 158 million barrels removed from the reserve, with more already earmarked to be removed and sold. Accounting for all promised sales, the reserve will be less than 340 million barrels by October 1. That means nearly than half of our oil reserves will have been sold by the administration in less than 9 months, and represents the lowest amount of oil in reserve since 1983.
The graph below, found at this location, outlines the depletion of our reserves, but keep in mind that this graph was created on June 17, which was before the most recent sales and releases that were authorized by the Whitehouse.
Keep in mind that Biden announced in March the release of 240 million barrels. This administration has no choice but to continue selling oil at this rate all the way through the election. What this means is that we will continue bleeding oil from the reserves at the rate of more than a million barrels a day.
It’s much worse than that, however. The SPR contains two kinds of crude: medium-sour, and light-sweet. Typically, US refiners prefer medium-sour crude, which can easily be processed into gasoline and other products. The light-sweet in the reserves has a much lower density, and is not as favored by refiners. So far, 85% of the oil removed from the SPR has been the medium-sour crude.
By October, the SPR will hold only 179 million barrels of medium-sour crude. Clearly, Biden is running out of firepower and out of time. By 2023, the US SPR will be virtually out of medium-sweet crude in the SPR.
Should that happen, you can expect gas shortages and when you can find gasoline, expect to see prices hit $10 a gallon or more.
9 Comments
Chris · July 26, 2022 at 7:31 pm
WHY…Did they sell the oil???
A serious question.
I haven’t seen spoken about and haven’t seen answered by the occupiers yet.
To drop the price 10-15cents for 1yr? (Political Pay’ola)
Steal the money?
Some sort of exonomic recovery bs speech??
WHY?
To What End?
And WHY ARE They CONTINUING??
This crap Needs to Stop. Wtf?
EN2 SS · July 26, 2022 at 8:12 pm
Research it, most is being sold to China and other countries.
BobF · July 26, 2022 at 8:31 pm
So the next level will be the sale of tanks, shoulder fired missiles, and helicopters?
Michael · July 26, 2022 at 8:59 pm
Sorry, that happened in the fire sale of Afghanistan and continues to reduce the value of the pre-owned sales of our military support for Ukraine.
No wonder Zelensky is pissed and demanding more stuff. He’s not getting the prices for selling them to terrorists he expected.
What did that Roman Senator Cicero say about the traitors within?
McChuck · July 27, 2022 at 4:34 am
There is an upside. The strategic reserve is for the military to fight wars with. With no fuel, they’ll have a harder time crushing We the People.
WDS · July 27, 2022 at 9:09 am
But wait, there’s more! Ukraine now wants natural gas from the US under the same lend-lease (aka “free”) terms as weapons and financial aid…..
https://thepressunited.com/updates/ukraine-to-ask-for-free-gas/
West Weimarbabwe · July 27, 2022 at 12:09 pm
All a feature and not a bug for burning it all down better.
At least the youngsters get to see what life was like under Jimmeh Carta without all the bad clothes and mullets.
The disco music is still sampled in the rap songs so there is that recycle feature for the comrades.
Danny's not here · July 27, 2022 at 6:30 pm
Excellent!
Danny's not here · July 27, 2022 at 6:34 pm
$10 per gallon? Perhaps but that sounds like a stretch.
But the key is will they keep it flowing? If your local outlet doesn’t get resupply … price is irrelevant.
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