Nope, you have to move the product on pipes, they cost money. You have to ship the product on boats, they cost money. We have our oil, it’s cheaper to put OUR oil in reserve.
Oil is a fungible asset. It doesn’t matter WHOSE oil goes into the SPR. What matters is that the oil is purchased at these ‘fire sale’ prices.
And BTW, most of the oil there already came from somewhere besides the US.