Some countries did have strategic reserves, but a massive coordinated release from those supplies didn’t make a difference for long – and those reserves may need to be replenished, paradoxically increasing demand for oil in the future.
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The Conversation,
The Conversation,
29 Sep. 2026
Emergency inventories, meanwhile, have reached dangerously low levels and have not been replenished.
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