Our strategic oil reserve is *tiny* -- like 700M barrels at peak. We use 20M per day. Barely a month of oil.

The grid has been crumbling for ages. Go look up the expiration dates of our LPTs. They should have been getting replaced decades ago and they cost millions each and require each to be custom built which can take years plus we have to source most of them from Siemens in Germany because we can't build large enough ones domestically yet. The next R won't fix this, they'll just continue pushing for privatization.

The clowns are in the peanut gallery all around you. Consider which company you're keeping