Trump's Energy Dominance Rewrites the Strategic Petroleum Reserve after Biden Drawdowns

Emma Colton : Jan 20, 2026
Fox News

[FoxNews.com] ...As the Trump administration works to gradually replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve following record releases under the Biden administration, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of The Heritage Foundation's Center for Energy, Climate and Environment, told Fox News Digital that the decades-old emergency oil stockpile no longer plays the same central role it once did. President Donald Trump's policies of "unleashing" energy and his "drill, baby, drill" mantra are key as to why, following the US as domestic supply rose and demand shifted. "I don't think for the security of the United States, for the economy of the United States, I don't think the SPR is as important as it was 25, 30 years ago because now we are one of the greatest oil and natural gas producers in the world," Furchtgott-Roth said... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read. (Image: iStock-Susan Vineyard)