Admiral Rockwell Tory
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- Nov 1, 2015
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Apparently, she knows how it works, just not that selling the oil is legal. That's not part of how the SPR works.Once the petroleum is released from the SPR, the domestic companies that buy it are free to sell to whoever they wish.
...In the face of such criticism, administration officials continued to insist that they can’t control what private companies do, and the oil that went overseas appears to be a small fraction of the total released from the national reserve thus far. Some conservatives conceded the point – at least in part. “Once oil is released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves, current U.S. law allows for companies that are registered to purchase it to then sell it on the market, including to adversaries like China,” said Heritage Foundation energy analyst Jack Spencer...
Now you know why she is wrong.