Welcome in his verdict to Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you on this day after Thanksgiving.

Senator, a lot of people driving home today seeing gas prices hit these numbers that they're not liking,

even though the administration wants you to believe this is really low right now.

And then there's another question, and that is, when do we start putting oil back into our strategic petroleum

reserves? The Biden Energy Advisor was asked about this, and his answer was pretty shocking.

Take a listen. Well, okay, so a couple of things. Number one, China lockdowns and the Fed raising rates and trying to orchestrate maybe a slowdown at least, whether it's a recession or not.

Those aren't the greatest ways to lower the price of oil. Plus, we've been tapping the SPR, which a lot of people criticize.

Especially if we're down below $80.

We're not today.

We're back up.

But definitely time to end that.

When would you start buying?

When would you start buying back the oil to try to replenish that?

What kind of price would we be talking about, almost?

Now, before the White House respond, Senator, let's just set the stage here on the Strategic Oil

Reserve so people understand the abuse here on the Strategic Oil Reserves so people

understand the abuse here. The president decided he's got a problem. Democrats were screaming

about the problem. If the price was too high on Election Day, they thought they would lose,

obviously, the House and the Senate, and it would be a red wave. They decided to take the

strategic oil reserves and dump million than two million barrels a day

into the marketplace to artificially lower the price you heard cnbcc say a lot of people think

this was not how the strategic oil reserves must be used this is a terrible decision that this

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