Has Strategic Petroleum Reserve become political football?
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was pushed to its lowest level in decades after the Biden administration ordered the biggest drawdown in its history.
Quick Take Biden approved a 180 million barrel release in 2022, the largest ever from the reserve.
The stockpile fell to its lowest level in about 40 years, then kept sliding in later years.
Critics said the White House used the reserve to ease gas pric…