[dakine]

Taxpayers paid ~$27.50 a barrel, I hope the selling price to the refiners is the going rate: $70.00 a barrel....

[stocksthatgoup]

pipeline and power to be reconstituted.

[Proud_texan]

My understanding of how the SPR works is that while we pay for the initial reserve when it's released the oil is "borrowed" and then replaced by the companies that borrow it.

I could very well be wrong, that's simply a memory from the drawdown during the Gulf war and possibly faulty.