Trump’s budget delivers Big Oil’s wish in proposing to reduce Strategic Petroleum Reserve | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

President Donald Trump’s newly proposed budget calls for selling over half of the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), the 687 million barrels of federally owned oil stockpiled in Texas and Louisiana as an emergency energy supply. While most observers believe the budget will not pass through Congress in its current form, budgets depict an administration’s priorities…