参议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党议员查克·舒默（Chuck Schumer）呼吁特朗普总统在美国战略石油储备（SPR）中释放石油储备，以应对油价因中东持续冲突而飙升的局面。
舒默在一份声明中表示，储备“正是为这样的时刻而存在的”。
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2026年3月3日，美国华盛顿特区国会大厦，参议院民主党政策午餐会后的新闻发布会上，参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默（D-N.Y.） （Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images）
[特朗普的能源主导地位在拜登削减储备后重塑战略石油储备]
“当战争和全球危机扰乱能源市场时，美国有能力采取行动，但特朗普总统及其政府拒绝这样做，”舒默称。“特朗普现在应该从战略石油储备中释放石油，以稳定市场、降低价格，并阻止美国家庭因他鲁莽发动的战争而感受到的价格冲击。”
在其第一任期内，特朗普曾希望从国会正在审议的一项巨额新冠疫情纾困计划中动用约30亿美元用于补充储备，但此举遭到舒默和国会民主党人的迅速反对，他们斥责这是对石油行业的“救助”。
当时西德克萨斯中质原油（WTI）价格约为每桶29美元。如今，油价在上周末首次突破每桶110美元，创2022年以来新高。
尽管战略石油储备的容量超过7亿桶，但目前储备量远低于此。
[能源部长称中东油轮将“最多几周”恢复正常航行，结束石油供应激增]
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2024年4月4日，美国华盛顿特区白宫东厅，美国总统乔·拜登在希腊独立日庆祝活动上发表讲话 （Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images）
这是因为在前总统拜登任内，战略石油储备曾被动用两次——一次是为缓解因新冠疫情经济影响仍在肆虐而飙升的燃油价格，另一次是为应对俄乌战争爆发初期能源成本上升。
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根据美国能源部数据，拜登任期结束时，储备中约有4.15亿桶原油。舒默当时支持拜登两次动用国家石油储备的决定，但数年前，在特朗普第一任期即将结束时，他曾阻挠特朗普增加储备的努力。
“舒默参议员曾大力支持乔·拜登的‘绿色新政骗局’，该政策推高了能源成本，威胁到我们的国家安全，并扼杀了美国的能源独立性，”白宫发言人泰勒·罗杰斯（Taylor Rogers）在一份声明中对福克斯新闻数字版表示。“特朗普总统自上任第一天起就一直在释放美国的能源主导地位，如今美国石油和天然气产量创历史新高。”
[中东紧张局势威胁全球石油供应，油价或大幅上涨]
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一段延时视频显示船舶在霍尔木兹海峡航行。（Kpler/Marine Traffic）
舒默对拜登2021年首次动用战略石油储备表示赞赏，称其提供了“加油站急需的临时缓解”。
“当然，解决汽油价格上涨的唯一长期办法是继续推进消除对化石燃料的依赖，打造强大的绿色能源经济，”他当时表示。
拜登任期即将结束时，其政府确实回购了石油以补充储备，舒默对此未提出异议。
时光快进，自特朗普发起“史诗级 Fury行动”以及伊朗封锁全球石油运输关键通道霍尔木兹海峡以来，每桶原油价格已飙升至前所未有的高位。
目前，美国民众在加油站感受到“价格冲击”之际，政府尚未公布动用储备的计划。
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能源部长克里斯·赖特（Chris Wright）认为，降低油价的最佳途径是通过消除伊朗针对油轮的能力，重新开放霍尔木兹海峡。
赖特上周末告诉福克斯新闻，这种中断将持续“几周，绝对不会是几个月”。
“我们认为，为了实现能源价格回到正轨的世界，这是一个小代价，”赖特说。“伊朗最终将被解除武装，现在你可以看到更多投资、更多贸易自由流动，以及对能源供应的威胁减少。”
亚历克斯·米勒（Alex Miller）是福克斯新闻数字版报道美国参议院的记者。
The top Senate Democrat wants President Donald Trump to tap the nation’s oil stockpile as fuel prices skyrocket, years after blocking his attempt to replenish the supply when prices were low.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called on Trump to unleash reserve barrels of oil from America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) as oil prices spike amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
Schumer argued in a statement that the reserve “exists for moments exactly like this.”
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., during a news conference following Senate Democrat policy luncheons at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 3, 2026.(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
[TRUMP’S ENERGY DOMINANCE REWRITES THE STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE AFTER BIDEN DRAWDOWNS]
“When wars and global crises disrupt energy markets, the United States has the ability to act, but President Trump and his administration are refusing to do so,” Schumer said. “Trump should release oil from the SPR now to stabilize markets, bring prices down, and stop the price shock that American families are already feeling thanks to his reckless war.”
During his first term, Trump wanted to use about $3 billion from a colossal COVID-19 stimulus package making its way through Congress to fill the reserve, but the move was promptly rejected by Schumer and congressional Democrats, who panned it as a “bailout” for the oil industry.
The price per barrel at the time was roughly $29, according to WTI Crude Oil. Now, oil has eclipsed $110 per barrel over the weekend for the first time since 2022.
Though the SPR has capacity for over 700 million barrels of crude oil, the reserve currently has far less.
[TANKERS TO RESUME NORMAL MOVEMENT IN MIDDLE EAST IN ‘A FEW WEEKS’ AT WORST, ENERGY SEC SAYS, ENDING OIL SURGE]
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President Joe Biden speaks during the Greek Independence Day in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 4, 2024.(Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)
That’s because under former President Joe Biden, it was tapped twice — once to relieve soaring fuel prices as the nation still grappled with the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, and another time to combat increased energy costs at the onset of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
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At the end of Biden’s term, the reserve had about 415 million barrels of crude on hand, according to data from the Department of Energy. Schumer supported both instances when Biden opened the nation’s oil reserves but, years prior, blocked Trump from building up the stockpile toward the end of his first term.
“Senator Schumer championed Joe Biden’s Green New Scam, which raised energy costs, threatened our national security, and stifled American energy independence,” White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told Fox News Digital in a statement. “President Trump has been unleashing American energy dominance since day one, and now, American oil and gas production is at record highs.”
[GAS PRICES COULD JUMP AS MIDDLE EAST TENSIONS THREATEN GLOBAL OIL SUPPLY]
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A timelapse video shows marine traffic moving through the Strait of Hormuz.(Kpler/Marine Traffic)
Schumer lauded Biden’s first move to tap into the SPR in 2021, arguing that it provided “much-needed temporary relief at the pump.”
“Of course, the only long-term solution to rising gas prices is to continue our march to eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels and create a robust green energy economy,” he said at the time.
And toward the end of Biden’s presidency, his administration did buy back barrels of oil to refill the reserves, which Schumer did not object to.
Fast-forward, and the price per barrel of oil has launched into the stratosphere since Trump’s Operation Epic Fury and Iran’s response to put the Strait of Hormuz — a key route ferrying barrels around the globe — into a chokehold.
For now, the administration has no public plans to tap into the reserve as Americans undergo sticker shock at the pump.
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright argued that the best way to lower prices was to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by neutralizing Iran’s ability to target oil tankers.
Wright told Fox News over the weekend that the disruption would last for “weeks, certainly not months.”
“We believe this is a small price to pay to get to a world where energy prices will return back to where they were,” Wright said. “Iran will finally be defanged, and now you can see more investment, more free flow of trade, and less ability to threaten energy supplies.”
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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