Why The US Won’t Run Out Of Oil

By Douglas McIntyre  •  October 22, 2025

The US keeps 714 million barrels of oil on hand in case of an emergency. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) was created in 1975 to protect the US against severe oil shortages, but America now pumps enough oil that it will probably never be needed. Douglas A. McIntyre, Editor-In-Chief of Climatecrisis247, discusses.

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