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US awards contracts for 1st 30mln barrels of emergency oil RS

Washington, April 22 (UNI/Sputnik) The Biden administration said it has contracted the first 30 million barrels of oil in the 180-million barrel sale it was making from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to tamp down pump prices of fuel.
"The Department of Energy… has awarded contracts for all of the initial thirty million barrels it put up for sale as part of the emergency release of 1 million barrels per day in oil for the next 6 months," the White House said in a statement on Thursday. "This is just the latest result of the Biden Administration’s efforts to do everything in our power to lower energy costs for American families, including accelerating the deployment of cost-saving clean energy with the urgency this moment requires."
Last week, Biden announced that the administration would allow the sale of E15, a gasoline blend that contained 15% ethanol versus the federally-mandated 10% requirement in the E10 gasoline, as a means to reduce usage of crude oil that could lead to lower pump prices of fuel.
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US agencies didn't share all data about threat of terror attack with Russia: NYT

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Russia working with China, Turkey, UAE on payments constructively

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Over 12,500 criminal suspects apprehended in Afghan

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