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(LifeSiteNews) — The Biden administration has sold nearly a million barrels of oil from U.S. emergency reserves to a Chinese-owned corporation with ties to President Joe Biden’s scandal-ridden son Hunter, the Washington Free Beacon reported Thursday.
The news comes as over five million barrels of oil from the United States’ historic Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) were reportedly exported to foreign countries including China last month, sparking backlash from Republicans as Americans continue to suffer under historically high gas prices.
Established in 1975 via the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, the SPR was meant to protect American energy access against “future supply cutoffs.”
In April, the Biden administration’s Department of Energy announced it was tapping into the SPR in a bid to “address Putin’s Price Hike at the pump and to establish true energy independence and lower costs for Americans into the future.”
The Biden admin sold one million barrels of
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