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To: Ken98 who wrote (40223)	6/16/2000 12:47:00 PM
From: Ken98	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42523

<<Politics Headlines Thursday June 15 9:16 PM ET National Stocks Bail Out Oil Co. WASHINGTON (AP) - In the first such move in four years, the government on Thursday ordered 500,000 barrels of crude oil from the U.S. strategic reserve to be loaned to a Louisiana refinery that has been cut off from tanker deliveries. The oil will begin flowing Friday from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve's West Hackberry site near Lake Charles, La., to a nearby Citgo refinery, the Energy Department said in a statement. The refinery was cut off from supply ships this week when a dry dock collapsed into a vital waterway. Without an oil loan, the Energy Department said, the refinery would have started drying up as early as this weekend. In return for the loan, Citgo will reimburse the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, kept in case of a national emergency, with ``an equivalent value'' of oil after the waterway is cleared, the department said. This will result in interest on the loan when Coast Guard cranes clear the area. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve last used its oil exchange authority in May 1996, when it lent 900,000 barrels to Arco because of a blocked pipeline.>> Note the time of the filing of the story and under the "politics" heading.

To: Ken98 who wrote (40223)	6/16/2000 12:52:00 PM
From: Terry Whitman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42523

Interesting. Thanks for catching that item. Don't know if it's bullish or bearish for oil- Do you know how much reserves there really are? Seems like a rather small amount.

To: Ken98 who wrote (40223)	6/16/2000 12:55:00 PM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 42523

<Lake Charles refinery from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve to alleviate crude supply problems at the Citgo refinery> Hell, that's not problem, we could heat 1/2 of CAnada with what's in my SUV right now!! <VBG> DAK