Hurricanes Harvey and Irma demonstrate the importance of keeping the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Energy Secretary Rick Perry said, in a not-so-subtle rebuke to President Donald Trump. “This is a good example of why we need an SPR,” Perry said at a press conference Friday morning. The reserve, run by the federal government, is a stockpile that can hold more than 700 million barrels of crude. Trump’s budget proposal this year called for selling half the reserve, saying it was no longer useful in a time of U.S. oil surpluses. Perry made his disagreement with the president’s position clear. “I didn’t write that budget,” he said at the press conference, held with other federal officials to discuss the state of government assistance to Florida after Hurricane Irma. After […]