Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Trump, tapping oil reserves and it being exported.

Trump is continually drawing down the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserves in an effort to cushion the blow from his elective campaign

against Iran, that he claims is to stop Iran from developing a nuke, despite U.S. intelligence,

the IAEA, and Iran saying they didn't have an active weapons program, and haven't for years. While his reasons for

his war may be imaginary, the effects on the economy aren't. A lot of people are hearing about

the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for the first time. It was created back in 1975, after the gas crisis back then. The oil is stored in giant salt

caverns. It can hold about 700 million barrels in reserve. But it wasn't full when it started.

In times of crisis, it's released to help stabilize the market. Trump has authorized the

release of about 172 million barrels. Out of what he's authorized, though, only a little more than 30 million

barrels has actually left the caverns. Out of that, about 13 million barrels left the U.S.

Yeah, about 40%. As this information seeps out in more and more reporting, we've got

three questions coming in. The first is, why is Trump sending the oil overseas when our gas prices are sky high?

Why hasn't gas gone down after all of the oil being released?

What's taking so long to release the oil?

We'll take those in reverse order. Why is it taking so long?

So the reserve is capable of delivering massive amounts of oil to the market quickly.

I think they built the system to be able to deliver in less than two weeks.

But in non-emergency scenarios, they don't dump it all at once. They allow small amounts out at a time

to cushion fuel prices. This is especially true if the self-inflicted crisis is expected to last

an extended period. Okay, so I hasn't gas gone down after all of the oil being released? Well, releases from the

reserve don't really drop prices, but they do help them not rise as fast, though. As an example,

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