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.
This concerns selling oil from the strategic reserves which the US established in 1973 in relation to the oil crisis as a defense against running out of energy in an emergency. But according to the Wall Street Journal, the politicians in the Senate are in the midst of serious deliberations about whether to lift the prohibition on selling out of the reserves - the so-called Strategic Petroleum Reserves - in order to generate money for a much-needed improvement of the US highway system.
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