The US may sell out of strategic oil reserves

Strict regulations which US politicians have defended as a question of national security, have been an obstacle to selling out of the country's oil reserves for many years. Now the politicians are ready to ease the rules.
Photo: Øyvind Hagen - Statoil
Photo: Øyvind Hagen - Statoil
BY TOMAS KRISTIANSEN

The need for cool cash to improve the US highways may now cause the country's politicians to reconsider an old restriction from past decades against selling oil from the country's large oil stockpile.

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