Energy Sec. Wright: The Price Is Right, We Are Refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Now

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WRIGHT: “Oh, absolutely. We are refilling the reserve now and we will continue to refill the reserve the whole time I’m in office. You know, that was just such an irresponsible action to drain that reserve so quickly for electoral reasons. And in fact, it was drained so fast, it did some damage to the facilities. And so, right now we only can fill two of the four major salt caverns we have. So we’re doing repair work on the other two, we’re slowly filling the other two, and I’m trying to get some funds through Congress that will give us a longer-term runway to fill the — fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at the fastest rate we can.”