Claims

SPR can store as much as 727 million barrels of oil in salt domes; it's now at roughly 357 million barrels, down from over 600 million; the odds of it ever being refilled are 'indistinguishable from zero' due to political opposition on the left.

Energy demand-side management—conservation and efficiency improvements—is an underutilized policy tool that could address immediate crisis while supporting long-term resilience, but receives insufficient policy attention compared to supply expansion.

Renewables in Europe are being rebranded from climate/emissions framing to energy security framing, but Europe also needs to extract itself from regulatory constraints that insulate energy policy from market realities.