Former President Donald Trump. File photoWASHINGTON Sep 18 Former U.S. President Donald Trump told a rally in Ohio that his successor, Joe Biden, is draining the strategic oil reserve in an attempt to bring down fuel prices as much as possible ahead of the fall election, and predicted that with the end of the electoral season, gasoline prices will rise sharply again. The White House has resorted to record-breaking commodity interventions to bring down the price of gasoline, which has been cheaper for 95 days in a row and now averages $3.68 a gallon — $1.33 less than in June pike.
«I filled these strategic reserves, <…> which have not been replenished for years. I did it at the right price when it was all-time low. I filled it up, and he (Biden. — Ed.) uses them to lower prices as much as possible, right before the election, «Trump said.
» And immediately after the election, they will double and be higher than anyone I could have imagined,” he predicted, adding that the strategic oil reserve is for war, not elections. In the midterm elections in November, the Americans will completely renew the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate. Both houses of Congress are now controlled by Democrats, Republican Trump's political opponents.