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Trump says to tap US strategic oil reserve ‘a little bit’

US President Donald Trump says that the United States will tap its strategic oil reserves “a little,” after the International Energy Agency said member countries would unlock supplies amid the Iran war, AFP reports.

“Right now we’ll reduce it a little bit and that brings the prices down,” Trump has said in an interview with Local 12 television in Cincinnati, Ohio, when asked if he was going to tap the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

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