There Biden Goes Again - Plans to Reduce SPR

Your wish list of conflicts does nothing to support the claim that a lower SPR would limit our ability to wage war.

Please provide support for how our current or lower levels of our SPR would handcuff our national defense.

 

So again - you can't provide any support - other than you've been told it's too low.

Here's a little data for you:

"The SPR is the world’s largest stockpile of emergency crude oil, owned and operated by the U.S. federal government to alleviate significant oil supply disruptions or price inflation. The oil is kept across a network of underground salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana, which can hold a total of more than seven hundred million barrels of oil. Up to 4.4 million barrels can be withdrawn per day—about a quarter of daily U.S. consumption—and the oil takes about two weeks to reach the market."

Sounds awesome, right? How could we ever exist without being able to withdraw 1/4 of our consumption?

A little context on production may help here:

"December, U.S. crude oil production was estimated to have reached a record high of 13.3 million bpd. Production notched an annual record of 13.21 million bpd in 2023.
U.S. crude oil production fell to 12.6 million bpd in January because of shut-ins related to cold weather, particularly in key oil producing states such as North Dakota, according to the EIA.
Production is expected to rise by 390,000 bpd to 13.49 bpd in 2025, which would be a record high."

We're currently pumping out of the ground on the daily nearly 4x what we can pull from the SPR on a given day.

Further, we could replenish the SPR from 0 to 100 in 52 days.

 

This feels rather circular.

If it's that easy, why should he replenish today?

Follow up question: how does one stfu and address the nation at the same time?

 

I have no idea what you are talking about anymore. This is the worst synopsis of an article I've ever read. I mean, I recognize all the words as English, but the sentences seem to make little sense.

If you'd like to write a coherent post, I'd gladly reply.

Thanks in advance