CNN CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera March 31, 2022 17:21:00
Size of it is staggering. this amounts to a shock and awe campaign from the white house. 180 million barrels over six months. that previous record release from november was just 50 million. this is triple the size of that. this is really kind of a break the glass moment. in the short term, it could help ease the shock caused by the war in ukraine. but it's not going to make gas prices cheap again. oil prices actually did go down sharply last night as word of this leaked out, but they bounced off their lows, down about 4.5%. $103 a barrel. that's still high. they are not collapsing. veteran ana...