{"id":347673,"date":"2020-04-21T10:39:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T05:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=347673"},"modified":"2020-04-21T11:15:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T05:45:20","slug":"trump-wants-to-use-oil-crash-to-fill-national-stockpile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/trump-wants-to-use-oil-crash-to-fill-national-stockpile\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump wants to use oil crash to fill national stockpile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said Monday the United States would take advantage of the historic drop in oil prices to replenish its national strategic stockpile, pending approval by Congress. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are filling up our national petroleum reserves&#8230; You know, the strategic reserves,\u201d Trump told reporters at his daily coronavirus press conference. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we are looking to put as much as 75 million barrels into the reserves themselves,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>Later in the briefing, he specified that he would only buy that amount if Congress authorized the funding &#8212; or if the federal government could rent storage space to third parties for a fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said Monday the United States would take advantage of the historic drop in oil prices to replenish its national strategic stockpile, pending approval by Congress. \u201cWe are filling up our national petroleum reserves&#8230; You know, the strategic reserves,\u201d Trump told reporters at his daily coronavirus press conference. \u201cAnd we are looking to put as much as 75 million barrels into the reserves themselves,\u201d he added. Later in the briefing, he specified that he would only buy that amount if Congress authorized the funding &#8212; or if the federal government could rent storage space to third parties for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}