At times, I feel like I don't understand how things work. This is a day and a half's worth of global oil consumption, but the goal may be to decrease any domestic pressure by altering global prices. We have (had) 415m in the SPR, so this is about a third of that.
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U.S. Lifts Sanctions on Some Iranian Oil to Get More to Market