How Biden’s record Strategic Petroleum Reserve sale will work

Published March 31, 2022 5:08pm ET



President Joe Biden will announce the single largest planned drawdown from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve on Thursday in a move designed to blunt record gasoline prices.

The White House previewed details of the approximately 180 million-barrel release before Biden is scheduled to make the announcement Thursday afternoon, calling it a strategy to contain “Putin’s price hike.” The plan involves the release of 1 million barrels per day, on average, for the next six months.

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