Secretary of Energy “Consulted” with the PRC before releasing oil from Reserves

Good day all. One of the things the most corrupt, incompetent President* in United States History did was all but drain the Strategic Petroleum Reserves. Even worse, China Joe sold it to his master, Xi Jinping

Now news has come out that Comrade Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, “Consulted” with the Chinese government before the releases began. Here are the details from Fox News:

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm engaged in multiple conversations with the Chinese government’s top energy official days before the Biden administration announced it would tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to combat high gas prices in 2021.

Granholm’s previously-undisclosed talks with China National Energy Administration Chairman Zhang Jianhua — revealed in internal Energy Department calendars obtained by Americans for Public Trust (APT) and shared with Fox News Digital — reveal that the Biden administration likely discussed its plans to release oil from the SPR with China before its public announcement. 

We know that China Joe sold a good amount of the oil to the People’s Republic of China, (Probably for a 10% kickback). When that news first came out, people were angry. The Strategic reserves are meant to be used by the United States, not our enemies. (Potential or otherwise) That Granholm was talking to the PRC smacks of conspiracy and potentially treason. (Perhaps even rising to the constitutional level)

According to the calendars, Granholm spoke in one-on-one conversations with Jianhua, who is a longstanding senior member of the Chinese Communist Party, on Nov. 19, 2021, and two days later on Nov. 21, 2021. Then, on Nov. 23, 2021, the White House announced a release of 50 million barrels of oil from the SPR, the largest release of its kind in U.S. history at the time.

“Secretary Granholm’s multiple closed-door meetings with a CCP-connected energy official raise serious questions about the level of Chinese influence on the Biden administration’s energy agenda,” APT Executive Director Caitlin Sutherland told Fox News Digital.

“Instead of focusing on creating real energy independence for America, Granholm has been too busy parroting Chinese energy propaganda and insisting ‘we can all learn from what China is doing,’” Sutherland continued. “The public deserves to know the extent to which Chinese officials are attempting to infiltrate U.S. energy policy and security.”

I think we know the answer to that. The Red Chinese have thoroughly penetrated the Democrat Party and the Biden Maladministration. Of course, they have an excuse already laid out.

In a statement, the DOE said the meeting was broadly part of the agency’s effort to combat climate change, but didn’t share what was discussed at the meeting.

“Solving the climate crisis means engaging with competitors and allies in clear and substantive discussions — especially among the nations emitting the most carbon pollution into the atmosphere,” a DOE spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “We must all address the transnational challenge of climate change to our planet.”

What Grenholm was probably doing was coordinating the sale of OUR oil to her masters in China. (Hoovernose was tied up and unavailable) I wonder how much of that money, if we actually saw any, went into the treasury and not into Cayman and Maltese bank accounts?

As part of its announcement in November 2021, the White House said it was releasing oil from U.S. reserves in conjunction with “other major energy consuming nations including China.” However, President Biden said in remarks after the announcement that China “may do more as well” and Granholm told reporters during a press briefing that China “will make its own announcement.”

Not only did China not “Do more,” they took our oil and added it to their reserves.

Republican leaders have warned that China, instead of releasing oil stocks, has increased its own reserves since Biden and Granholm’s announcement in November 2021. They have argued the SPR releases weakened U.S. national security and bolstered foreign adversaries’ “geopolitical leverage.”

Nice of you to notice. Hurting American has always been the plan with regards to the Democrats, going back to 1865.

“China ramped up its purchases of crude oil from Russia and the United States to boost its own reserves, even as oil prices surged and President Biden called for a coordinated release,” House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and former GOP Rep. Fred Upton wrote to Granholm last year. 

“As a result, China may now control the world’s largest stockpile of oil, with total crude inventories estimated at 950 million barrels,” they added.

In addition, the White House and Department of Energy has been heavily criticized for allowing SPR sales to flow to Chinese state-run energy companies. The White House then fired back in July 2022, arguing that its hands were tied since it is legally required to sell SPR oil to the highest bidder.

I would need to review that statement. I do know that Congress was working on a bill to make sure that SPR oil could only be sold to United States companies. China has received some 2 million barrels of our oil from the SPR.

“China is profiting from President Biden’s political abuse of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,” Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking member John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said earlier this year. “Meanwhile, America has become more vulnerable to true energy and national security emergencies.”

The SPR is at the lowest levels in decades, all thanks to China Joe’s corruption. When we need that oil, it won’t be there. Where it will be is in the fuel tanks of Chicom warships. Of course, this may have been what Biden and Granholm wanted all along. Biden, for reasons of compensation, (You don’t think Hoovernose’s paintings are really worth $500K each do you?), has been selling out the United States for decades.

Granholm isn’t even an American. She is a Canadian Communist who was naturalized and later became Governor of Michigan. From what I remember, she was just as big a disaster as the current Govno. Now she is working to aid our enemies and destroy the United States. She needs to be hauled up in front of Congress and ripped a new one. (Actually, she needs to be arrested and jailed, but that’s just my opinion) I’ve now reached the point that far to many others have as well that the United States is finished and the “National Divorce” may well happen. We can thank people like Granholm of this happens.

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