The U.S. Department of Energy has been sued by a watchdog organization questioning whether Joe Biden's decision to release millions of barrels of oil from the nation's emergency reserve actually is a political move.

Reports have confirmed some of that oil, which Biden promised would be used to lower gasoline prices across the U.S., actually was shipped out to China.

But Tristan Justice at The Federalist reported that watchdog Functional Government Initiative sued the DOE over its refusal to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests that relate to Biden's use of the valuable national asset in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.