President Obama discussed energy policy with British Prime Minister David Cameron but made no plans to tap the strategic oil reserves controlled by the two governments, the White House said today.
“It is inaccurate, as was reported today, that any kind of agreement was reached on a course of action or that any kind of timetable associated with a course of action was agreed to,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters today. “Those reports are wrong, they’re false.”
Reuters reported today that “a formal request from the United States to the UK to join forces in a release of oil from government-controlled reserves is expected ‘shortly’ following a meeting on Wednesday in Washington between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron” in which the two leaders agreed to release oil from the reserves.
“I am not going to discuss specifics about it,” Carney said of Obama’s energy conversation with Cameron when asked again if they had talked about tapping the oil reserves. “I can say very clearly that the report” that plans were made “is false.”
