Washington-The US may sell millions of barrels of crude oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve later this year, a possibility some analysts say could leave the US vulnerable to global supply outages, given OPEC’s rapidly shrinking spare capacity. Market conditions have made crude sales from government stockpiles potentially more risky than they were just a year ago when proposals to sell SPR crude began working through Congress, according to Jason Bordoff, director of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and a former advisor to President Obama.
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