It's not really. Selling the strategic reserve to try and lower gas prices before an election is pretty questionable, and strategically dumb. But selling the stuff to China is kind of irrelevant. Oil is a global market. Demand in China drives up the prices everywhere else. It really doesn't matter where the oil goes.
It's not really. Selling the strategic reserve to try and lower gas prices before an election is pretty questionable, and strategically dumb. But selling the stuff to China is kind of irrelevant. Oil is a global market. Demand in China drives up the prices everywhere else. It really doesn't matter where the oil goes.