Stock Photo - US President Joe Biden speaks while joined by Jennifer Granholm, US energy secretary, left, Amos Hochstein, senior energy security adviser for the U.S. Department of State, and Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council, right, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. The Biden administration plans to release 15 million barrels from US emergency reserves, and may consider significantly more this winter, in an effort to ease high gasoline prices that have become a liability for Democrats in next month's midterm elections. Credit: Al Drago / Pool via CNP. - Washington/District of Columbia/Vereinigte Staaten