After Democrats in Congress blocked efforts to buy US crude for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the Department of Energy announced Thursday that it was making 30 million barrels of space available for US producers to store crude. The DOE said it would make an additional 47 million barrels of storage space, accounting for the remainder of its total capacity, available at a later date. “The Department continues to work with Congress to find ways to make funding available for DOE to buy American oil,” US Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said in a statement. “However, we must move with a sense of urgency to support an […]