GOP senator grills Biden’s energy secretary on release of US oil reserves: ‘historically low levels’

Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm denies to Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., that U.S. policy on its Strategic Petroleum Reserve was ever connected to China. Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., had a tense exchange Wednesday with President Biden’s energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, whom he accused of coordinating the release of U.S. emergency oil reserves with China. During a hearing before the…