here, we are sitting on a bunch of barrels, that actually exist in a cave somewhere. >> they do, about five and 80 some odd million barrels of this. >> the idea is, if we are ever in an emergency where we don't have any access to oil, this is the strategic reserve. >> we used, for example, in hurricane katrina. that was a major time. but in katrina, they released maybe 25, 26 million barrels of oil. in this case, over the course of your, they released 180 billion barrels. >> no one had ever done anything like this? >> very aggressive >> as he is increasing the supply, he is saying you want to keep prices high? guess what? we're going to put a bunch of oil on the market and drive the price down. and we are going to sell it into the market. >> solids into the market, and more than that, we're going to lock all the other traders in the eye and say to them, if you want my oil, the guy standing on the other end of this trade is the u.s. treasury. the government of the united states. and that scared the bee gees is out of every trader. they were helping drive the price of oil down, the government was selling it because nobody wants, whether