Disadvantages Of Tapping SPR
1 Million Barrels per day will not significantly reduce consumer costs (Zickerman 2000)
To give oil out, in turn, it must be returned. Returning the crude to the reserve, oil must be taken out of the market to be placed into the reserve which results in less oil, higher prices, in the market. (Kiernan 2001)
Figure 8. Refinery Smokestacks (Corbis.com 2000)