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Why Biden is tapping the U.S. emergency oil stash

Episode Summary

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden said he was releasing some U.S. oil reserves in an effort to combat high gasoline prices. It’s part of a multilateral effort by the White House to reduce global prices. POLITICO’s Ben Lefebvre explains.

Episode Notes

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden said he was releasing some U.S. oil reserves in an effort to combat high gasoline prices. It’s part of a multilateral effort by the White House to reduce global prices. POLITICO’s Ben Lefebvre explains.

 

Ben Lefebvre covers the energy industry for POLITICO. 

Nirmal Mulaikal is a POLITICO audio host-producer. 

Raghu Manavalan is the host-producer of the Playbook Daily Briefing and a senior editor for POLITICO audio.

Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO’s audio department.