I was thinking or wondering if Bush got any grief over that. They’re hailing Obama as a/an (*) for opening the reserve - which to me is totally wrong.
According to the article the only other time that the Strategic Oil Reserve got tapped was for Desert Shield/Desert Storm, so that would have been George H. W. Bush. ‘Course tapping it in time of war when there was an actual disruption of the oil supply... that was sort of the whole point.