On Monday, the Department of Energy released data about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The Strategic Petroleum ReserveThe United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve was created in 1975 after the 1973-1974 Arab oil embargo. For most of its history, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was, in essence, a kind of insurance policy rather than something the government routinely tapped. But the biggest tapping of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve came in 2022, in the aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Data compiled by Bank of America and reported by The Hill shows that current stocks in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve stand at about 43 days.