Oil

Brick is U.S. crude production. Steel is net crude imports. Same units — million barrels a day. SPR change and the Cushing price sit in the numbers. Play from Bush 41. 2026 production is through May; the reserve is the week of August 14.

Produced

13.7

13,685 thousand bbl/d · million bbl/day

Net imports

1.61

1,608 thousand bbl/d · crude, not products

SPR

293.4M

293,426,000 barrels · −266.1M since ’88

At this year

2026*

Trump 2 · $83.38 WTI · SPR −100.1M

By administration

Term average production · SPR change · WTI

Bush 41

1989–1992

Prod

7.39

SPR Δ

+15.2M

WTI

$21.57

Clinton

1993–2000

Prod

6.37

SPR Δ

−34.0M

WTI

$20.12

Bush 43

2001–2008

Prod

5.37

SPR Δ

+161.1M

WTI

$52.43

Obama

2009–2016

Prod

7.20

SPR Δ

−6.7M

WTI

$76.68

Trump 1

2017–2020

Prod

11.0

SPR Δ

−57.0M

WTI

$53.05

Biden

2021–2024

Prod

12.4

SPR Δ

−244.5M

WTI

$79.31

Trump 2

2025–2026*

Prod

13.6

SPR Δ

−100.1M

WTI

$74.38