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华盛顿9月23日路透电 — 美国缅因州的两位参议员本周呼吁唐纳德·特朗普总统动用该国的应急燃料储备，因柴油价格飙升至历史高位，推高了家庭开支。缅因州是全美对家用取暖油依赖程度最高的州。
“我们致信请求你从东北部取暖油储备库中释放取暖用油，以保护缅因州民众免受目前过高油价带来的沉重经济负担，”共和党议员苏珊·柯林斯与民主党党团独立议员安格斯·金于周二在写给特朗普的信中说道。
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柯林斯目前在11月中期选举中面临激烈的连任竞选，她在一份声明中告诉路透社，能源成本是“我州的重大议题”，动用储备“将有助于压低油价”。
参议员们援引缅因州能源资源部的一项调查称，缅因州家庭如今加满一个取暖油油箱的花费比去年多出约675美元。与取暖油类似的柴油价格已飙升至每加仑6.50美元以上的历史高位，原因是伊朗和乌克兰的冲突挤压了燃料生产和石油航运。
白宫未立即回应记者就该信函提出的置评请求。
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柯林斯还与罗德岛州民主党议员杰克·里德一同呼吁政府拨款支持低收入家庭的取暖项目。
该储备库在缅因州至新泽西州的四个地点储存了100万桶柴油，由前总统比尔·克林顿于2000年设立。其储备量约可满足该地区10天的取暖用油需求，自2012年飓风桑迪过后为应急救援人员提供燃料以来，该储备库从未被动用过。
特朗普去年的预算案提议关闭这一维护成本高昂的储备库。
不断飙升的柴油价格已引发呼吁禁止该燃料出口的声音，但白宫周三否认了一则新闻报道，该报道称美国政府正准备实施为期90天的柴油出口禁令。
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Senators from both parties ask Trump to release emergency heating oil as prices surge
September 23, 2026 9:29 PM UTC / Reuters
[1/2]US Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) departs after an evening Senate vote at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., US, September 22, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) – The two US senators from Maine, the state most reliant on home heating oil, asked President Donald Trump this week to tap the country’s emergency stash of the fuel as diesel prices soar to record levels and push up household bills.
“We write to request that you release home heating oil from the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve to protect Mainers from the very high prices that are imposing a difficult financial burden,” Senators Susan Collins, a Republican, and Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, wrote in a letter to Trump on Tuesday.
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Collins, who is in a tight race for her seat in the November midterm elections, told Reuters in a statement the cost of energy is a “huge issue in my state” and that tapping the reserve “would help put downward pressure on prices.”
Maine households are paying about $675 more to fill a heating oil tank than they did last year, the senators said, citing a Maine Department of Energy Resources survey. Prices for diesel, which is similar to heating oil, have surged to a record over $6.50 a gallon as the wars in Iran and Ukraine have crimped production of fuels and petroleum shipments.
The White House did not immediately respond to a query about the letter.
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Collins also joined Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat of Rhode Island, in asking the administration to release home heating program money to help low-income households.
The reserve, which stores 1 million barrels of diesel in four sites from Maine to New Jersey, was created in 2000 by former President Bill Clinton. It holds roughly 10 days of heating oil for the region and has not been tapped since 2012, when it provided fuel to emergency responders in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
Trump’s budget last year proposed to shut the reserve, which is expensive to maintain.
The soaring diesel price has spurred calls for a ban on exports of the fuel, but the White House on Wednesday denied a news report that said the administration is preparing a 90-day ban on diesel exports.
Reporting by Nichola Groom and Timothy Gardner; Editing by Sonali Paul
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