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There is no partisan political strategy story to be read into the drawdown of the SPR. Biden ("the democrats") drew it down by an even larger amount right after the invasion of Ukraine to stabilize prices, and now before it recovered Trump is drawing it down even further to stabilize prices from his new war.

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Of course, the major difference is that Biden was responding to Russia invading Ukraine while Trump was responding to a conflict that he caused and started.

Certainly, just refuting GPs supposition that "Democrats want a big reserve so the US is dependent, Republicans want a small reserve because they want to be self-sufficient", since none of the numbers back it.

The US is a capitalist country oil companies will sell the oil to whomever pays the most. Tankers go vroom.

Although remarkably there's been a lot of commie talk about nationalising the energy sector and not from the usual suspects...

Anyone who uses "commie" unironically in the 2020s is not capable of productive discourse.

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