Biden to speak on gasoline prices Wednesday as SPR release reportedly planned

President Joe Biden will speak about gasoline prices on Wednesday, the White House said, as his administration is reportedly moving toward a release of at least another 10 million to 15 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Bloomberg News and others report that such a release would be the latest in a 180-million-barrel program that began in the spring. White House chief of staff Ron Klain said in a tweet on Tuesday that Biden would speak on the subject “tomorrow,” but offered no further details. Analysts, meanwhile, don’t expect an SPR release to lead to a significant fall in gasoline prices at the pump, MarketWatch reports.