•HRES 1362 IH 
Articles of Impeachment exhibited by the House of 
Representatives of the United States of America in the 
name of itself and of the people of the United States of 
America, against Joseph Robinette Biden, President of the 
United States of America, in maintenance and support of 
its impeachment against him for endangering, compro-
mising, and undermining the energy security of the United 
States by selling oil from the United States’ Strategic Pe-
troleum Reserve to foreign nations. 
The Constitution provides that the House of Rep-
resentatives ‘‘shall have the sole Power of Impeachment’’ 
and that the President ‘‘shall be removed from Office on 
Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or 
High Crimes and Misdemeanors’’. 
In his conduct as President of the United States, in 
violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the 
office of the President of the United States, and, to the 
best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Con-
stitution of the United States—Joseph Robinette Biden 
continues to materially endanger the energy security of the 
United States and empower foreign adversaries in their 
objective to subvert the United States as the dominant 
global economic and political power. 
ARTICLE I 
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President Biden’s decision to liquidate the United 
States Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) demonstrates 
his administration is more concerned with enriching other 
nations than protecting United States citizens at home, 
even when those nations do not need United States’ oil 
to survive. 
According to Reuters News on July 5, 2022, ‘‘more 
than 5 million barrels of oil that were part of a historic 
U.S. emergency reserves release. . .were exported to Eu-
rope and Asia last month, according to data and sources, 
even as U.S. gasoline and diesel prices hit record highs’’. 
Reuters further reported that ‘‘cargoes of SPR crude 
oil were also headed to the Netherlands and to a Reliance 
refinery in India, an industry source said. A third cargo 
headed to China, another source said. . .the latest exports 
follow three vessels that carried SPR crude oil to Europe 
in April helping replace Russian crude oil supplies’’. 
India and China do not need oil from the United 
States since both Asian nations import oil from Russia. 
In fact, Business Standard reported that India’s oil im-
ports from Russia jumped ‘‘over 50 times since April 
[2022]’’. Reuters relayed that China’s imports of Russian 
oil from May 2022 set a record, surpassing Saudi Arabia 
as the top oil exporter to China. 
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India spent $5,000,000,000 on Russian oil in the 
first part of 2022, a five-fold increase from their pur-
chases of oil from 2021. 
According 
to 
Bloomberg, 
China 
spent 
$19,000,000,000 on Russian oil, gas, and coal in the first 
part of 2022, double the amount they spent on the same 
resources over the same period in 2021. 
While citizens of the United States are facing ex-
treme price increases for food and fuel under Biden’s pres-
idency, his administration is selling the United States’ 
emergency fuel supply to China and other nations. 
ARTICLE II 
President Biden’s decision to liquidate the SPR re-
veals his plan to endanger the security of the United 
States, both economically and politically, while empow-
ering adversaries to do grave harm to us and our allies. 
Congress authorized the creation of the SPR in 1975 
under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. 
By December 1994, the SPR had been filled to 
591,700,000 barrels. 
In mid-November of 2001, President George W. Bush 
ordered the SPR filled to 700,000,000 barrels. 
The SPR was filled to its then 727-million-barrel au-
thorized storage capacity on December 27, 2009; the in-
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ventory of 726,600,000 barrels was the highest ever held 
in the SPR. 
The SPR’s current authorized storage capacity is 
714,000,000 barrels of crude oil. 
When President Joe Biden entered office, the SPR 
contained 638,000,000 barrels of crude oil. In 2021, the 
United States consumed an average of 19,780,000 barrels 
of petroleum per day, a total of 7,220,000,000 barrels of 
petroleum. 
In 2021, 134,830,000,000 gallons of finished motor 
gasoline was consumed in the United States, an average 
of about 369,000,000 gallons per day. 
In 2021, diesel fuel consumption by the United States 
transportation sector was 46,820,000,000 gallons, an av-
erage of about 128,000,000 gallons per day. 
President Biden announced on March 31, 2022, that 
his administration would begin releasing at least 
1,000,000 barrels of oil from the SPR on a daily basis, 
with a target total of more than 180,000,000 barrels of 
oil. 
The national average price of unleaded gasoline and 
diesel fuel in June 2022, was $5, an all-time high. 
The SPR currently holds 427,200,000 barrels of 
crude oil as of September 16, 2022. This is after Reuters 
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reported in August that the SPR ‘‘fell to the lowest level 
since 1984’’. 
No President in the history of the United States has 
ordered a liquidation of the SPR of this scale. Even in 
1991, during the Gulf war, the United States liquidated 
only 17,000,000 barrels of crude oil from the SPR to pro-
vide further stability to the global crude oil market. Fol-
lowing Hurricane Katrina, the United States released 
some 20,000,000 barrels of crude oil to the United States 
domestic market following the destruction of major oil re-
fineries in the gulf coast region. 
In 2021, the Department of Energy sold crude oil 
from the SPR to a foreign government for the first time. 
President Biden is emptying the SPR of medium-sour 
crude oil, which is a crucial type of oil that domestic refin-
ers process into gasoline. The Department of Energy re-
leased 4,600,000 barrels of medium-sour crude oil in late 
July. This decision could cause oil prices to skyrocket in 
the long-term as refineries seek to re-acquire more easily 
processed crude. 
President Biden’s decision to liquidate this enormous 
amount of crude oil from the SPR has put the United 
States in unprecedented danger by reducing its essential 
supply of natural resources in the event of a natural dis-
aster, global supply chain crisis, or war. 
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