Ledger · 2024 campaign · № 198
Immediately fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Still waiting“[paraphrase] We will fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve right to the top — immediately.”
- Promised
- , Republican National Convention acceptance speech, Milwaukee
- Stated deadline
- “immediately”
- Re-promised
- 6 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Energy & environment
- Era
- 2024 campaign
What happened
The SPR was not refilled to capacity. Purchases were limited by appropriations and by the very oil prices the administration was trying to keep low, and refill slowed further once the February 2026 Iran war drove crude higher. PolitiFact still listed the promise as unfulfilled at the one-year mark.