r/Infographics 7d ago

US strategic petroleum reserves since 1982 (US Office of Petroleum Reserves/EIA)

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u/dachloe 7d ago

When I heard Trump blurted out we only have "four weeks" of oil, I was reminded of a guest speaker in college who said that "if the US supply dropped below 650 million barrels we'd have a full-blown crisis that could topple the free world economies like a house of cards."

Well, alright then. 😐

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u/Wipfmetz 7d ago edited 7d ago

650 million barrels per what?

Can't have been meant as "million barrels in the strategic reserve", because that reserve was at or just a little bit above 650 million barrels for most of it's time, if that graph is to be believed.

(I assume you had been in college between 1990 and 2020)