There's a finite amount of oil in stockpiles around the world. It can buy time and it can keep the price of oil sort of around that $100 a barrel mark for a couple of weeks maybe. But unless you start getting the flow of oil out of the Persian Gulf, no amount of releasing the strategic stockpiles is going to help. The US administration is artificially suppressing oil prices using finite tools like SPR releases. Once these reserves are depleted or reach their political limit, the market will have to price in the structural supply deficit caused by the Strait of Hormuz bottleneck. When the artificial ceiling is removed, the underlying commodity and major integrated energy producers will capture significant upside as true price discovery takes over. LONG oil and major energy producers, as current prices are artificially suppressed by temporary government interventions that cannot solve the underlying geopolitical supply shock. A sudden diplomatic breakthrough that fully reopens the Strait of Hormuz, or a severe global macroeconomic recession that destroys baseline oil demand.