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2026-09-29 23:17 UTC

White House will tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to attempt to blunt rising gas prices ahead of the midterms. https://www.semafor.com/article/09/29/2026/white-house-taps-strategic-petroleum-reserve

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  • @KevinFlynn@c.im 2026-09-29 23:18

    @newsguyusa@flipboard.social like burning money to fight inflation

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  • @mscheffel@techhub.social 2026-09-29 23:38

    @newsguyusa@flipboard.social Usually, when a President does this I shrug as this is merely performative. But we are actually at war with impact to oil production, sitting on already depleted reserves, have Russia salivating at our weakness and are no longer friends with the nice folks to the north. Every other day I top off my electric car with solar. This will have equal benefit as the release from the SR. It will do much less harm.

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  • @darren@c.im 2026-09-30 00:38

    @newsguyusa@flipboard.social Is there any strategic oil reserve left?

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  • @cgrymala@higheredweb.social 2026-09-30 00:43

    @newsguyusa@flipboard.social does anyone believe they'll leave it open after midterms?

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  • @Kevin@doyle.boston 2026-09-30 00:53

    @newsguyusa@flipboard.social lol

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  • @Npars01@mstdn.social 2026-09-30 14:55

    @newsguyusa@flipboard.social #TranslatedFromTheRepublican "Trump reduces national defense preparedness in order to buy an election. Fossil fuel megadonors rejoice in the GOP'S vast public corruption."

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