Biden confirms: 30 countries will resort to their strategic oil reserves

US President Joe Biden confirmed Friday that "more than thirty countries" will follow the United States' example and resort to its strategic oil reserves in an attempt to lower prices.

Referring to an International Energy Agency initiative, Biden said, "This morning, more than thirty countries held an emergency meeting and decided to pump into the market tens of millions of additional barrels of oil."

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