It wasn't needed. Obviously because even though we just heavily tapped it we had enough and still have plenty left, we didn't run dry.

We don't need to set our reserve policy based on what's best for the oil industry at that moment, that's beyond moronic. Likewise we don't need the government gambling on oil futures. That's the type of energy policy someone who comes up with the idea of injecting Lysol to cure Covid would come up with.