I bet it’s my taxpayer money.

  • mkwt@lemmy.world
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    The SPR holds mainly crude oil, so you can’t just open a gas station and start selling it. It has to be sent to a refinery first, and once that happens the product that comes out is fungible.

    In short it would be logistically simpler to just buy gasoline on the market and subsidize it. The subsidy is only 20-30 cents / gal as well.