Dems vote to support sale of US oil to Chicoms

 Spencer Brown:

In a vote on Wednesday afternoon, House Democrats shot down a GOP-led amendment that would ban the Biden administration and U.S. Department of Energy from selling oil kept in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to one of our nation's biggest foes, China.

219 House Democrats voted to block the bill from going forward as gas prices remain more than $2 more expensive per gallon than when President Biden took office, signaling again that Democrats are all-in on their radical "transition" aimed at ending fossil fuels no matter the cost to Americans.

Rep. David Valadao, a Republican from California, spoke on the House floor in support of the GOP amendment, explaining that "supporting this language is common sense, especially since we need to focus on increasing energy production and not supporting our adversaries while Americans are still suffering from outrageously high fuel prices here at home."

While gas prices have come down a few pennies from their all-time highs reached earlier this summer while the Biden administration waged war on American energy, the national average for a gallon of regular fuel is still some $1.30 higher than it was just one year ago. Meanwhile, eight states currently still have averages over $5 per gallon.

"These [strategic] reserves are meant to be used in emergencies only," Valadao continued on Wednesday. "They are not meant to be used when our leadership has failed us by unnecessarily restricting domestic energy production."
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Biden's energy policy has to be one of the more idiotic in history.  He has closed US offshore production and production in Alaska while begging other countries to produce more and selling US oil to a hostile power like China.   It appears that Democrats in Congress support this idiocy.

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