Posted on 07/13/2022 2:25:45 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) proposed legislation on Wednesday that would block the United States from selling Strategic Petroleum Reserve oil to China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran as President Joe Biden has drained the SPR to the lowest level in decades, Breitbart News learned exclusively.
Cruz sponsored the No Emergency Crude Oil for Foreign Adversaries Act, a bill that would block the United States from selling to adversarial nations. It permits a waiver for national security reasons and requires the Department of Energy to report the destination of exported oil from recent SPR auctions.
The Texas conservative told Breitbart News in a statement that America should not drain its SPR to benefit China.
“At a time of skyrocketing inflation and record gas prices, and with SPR drained to its lowest level since 1986, it is reckless and inexplicable that President Biden would allow oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to be exported to China,” Cruz said. “This practice poses a direct threat to American national security, not least of all because the Chinese Communist Party is currently stockpiling oil for strategic use, and the Biden administration is aiding their effort.”
Sens. James Inhofe (R-OK), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Joni Ernst (R-IA), James Lankford (R-OK), John Kennedy (R-LA), and Roger Marshall (R-KS) cosponsored the bill.
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Nice but shou,d have been done Last WEEK!!!!! MOVE PUBBIES! ACT QUICKLY!
This says everything about the illegitimate enemy combatant occupying the WH.
Obama was exactly the same way but more stealthy with his enemy actions.
Obiden is just a raging pedo buffoon all the enemies in his cabinet can blame hime for all this treason. Nope. They are complicit just as a get away driver is. Sometimes more so.
“When a court jester becomes king the castle becomes a clown show”.
Biden is the designated court jester with a crown.
It’s all talk from Ted Cruz, I would be more impressed if he proposed this last week as you said and if he added finishing the Keystone XL pipeline, open up offshore drilling, etc...
Maybe Cruz could draw up a bill that says Biden shouldn’t do that anymore. Yeah, that should work.
Until we oust the RINO traitors from the state legislatures who handed the Steal to the Vegetable on a platter, this kind of thing is just posturing for the camera.
Biden first released SPR oil in late March.
Nice(/s) to see someone is at least looking at it.
Tightly crafted legislation is far superior to catch-all, omnibus bills.
Doesn’t matter when they propose it. Chuck the Schmuck will never let it see the light of day.
Wow, that was quick. NOT. How much polling was required to come up for that one? Or, did he just read about the SPR release. This is exactly what I loathe about RINOs. They are clueless as to what real American First people are thinking.
Until we oust the RINO traitors...
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Who puts and keeps them there? The clueless Republican voter does. The GOP counts on their gullibility and naivete.
Until the voters get serious about holding people accountable nothing will change.
This is exactly what I loathe about RINOs. They are clueless as to what real American First people are thinking.
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They KNOW. They simply don’t care.
This bill is meaningless. They will just send other (non-SPR) oil to the adversarial nations and replace it in the domestic market with SPR oil.
This bill is meaningless. They will just send other (non-SPR) oil to the adversarial nations and replace it in the domestic market with SPR oil.
That might be true if the bill has a snowballs chance in hell of passing, which the bill proposed by Cruz has less than a snowballs chance in hell of passing, Cruz is trying to make a political statement, why not make that statement about an overall energy policy, instead of a nonsensical banning of SPR oil from being sold to China.
Here we are with a few months to go before the midterm elections and the Republicans are basically running on “The Dems are Crazy and we don’t suck that bad”, instead of a basic roadmap out of this hell we are in.
Good!!!
Garbage in. Garbage out!
Shouldn’t be allowed to sell it just because they want to, period
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