When oil prices hit the roof in November 2021, Joe Biden decided to tap into the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to try and bring prices at the pump down. A year out from the midterms and sky-high gas prices were destroying the Democrat’s chances for the election. Never mind that Biden was taking oil out of the SPR for a reason never contemplated by the Carter administration, who set the reserve up in 1977 as a buffer against an oil boycott by anti-Israeli Arabs. It was an emergency reserve for the West if the Arabs ever cut off the supply of oil.