The previous administration sold, sold 200 million barrels of oil without an interruption of flow around the world, trying to push down prices for a midterm election. We have not sold a single barrel of oil. Every barrel of oil we have released has been a trade. It's been an exchange. We for a barrel coming back. And the exchanges we completed so far, this is not the current ones that are going on right now. (17:38–17:42)
CLAIM
Asserts that all oil released from the SPR has been through trade, not sales.
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