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jubilantitoday at 2:16 PM2 repliesview on HN

Just going to leave this graph of reserves over time here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/US...


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flutastoday at 2:21 PM

Never mind this

> On March 19, 2020, President Donald Trump directed the Department of Energy to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to maximum capacity, when oil was priced at $24 per barrel. This directive was given to help support domestic oil producers given the impending economic collapse from COVID-19 and extreme drops in international oil markets. However, funding was blocked by Congress, with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer stating that Democrats had blocked a "bailout for big oil".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_(U...

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fn-motetoday at 2:24 PM

Read it for yourself.

To me this shows massive withdrawals in 2021-2022 and again in the last two years.

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