But I wouldn't rule out using the petroleum reserve.

The country with a quarter of the world's known petroleum reserves could have better life expectancy than 75.4 years.

As owner of the world's largest petroleum reserve, it had two ways to go.

This is roughly 10% of the world's total proven petroleum reserves.

If an embargo turned global, American companies could get some oil from the petroleum reserve before that ran out.

Some industry officials expect Western nations to draw oil from their strategic petroleum reserves.

Various Federal assets like oil from the strategic petroleum reserve would be sold to raise money.

Chinese leaders have been debating for years whether to set up a strategic petroleum reserve.

They're sitting on some of the richest petroleum reserves in the world.

President Clinton said yesterday that he needed "a few more days" before deciding whether to release oil from the 571-million-barrel petroleum reserve.