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The use of "hides" is a bit clickbaity, if they said "stores" then people would have thought it a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

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Not just clickbaity but factually incorrect. There are right there for everyone to see (from Google Maps) ...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bryan+Mound+Strategic+Petr...

It has its own webpage at the DOE. Some secret. Sadly, HN often falls for click-baity articles with an anti-US or conspiratorial spin to them.

http://energy.gov/fe/services/petroleum-reserves/strategic-p...

There's no shortage of conspiratorial comments and posts about Russia and China on HN either. There's something about conspiracies which captures our imagination but there needs to at least be some basis in the facts.

Looks like the BBC left their work experience students in charge of the clickbait department. Let's see true professionals at work: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-17/even-a-slo...

Of course China is buying now. Oil is cheap. Good time to stock up.

The price of oil is not conspiracy driven at the moment. It used to be, back when OPEC had more control. Now that everybody has fracking technology, supply exceeds demand, and OPEC can't do much about the price.

For an overview of OPEC (mostly Saudi) thinking on this, see [1].

[1] http://business.financialpost.com/news/energy/saudi-arabia-w...

Ok, we replaced "hides" with "stores" in the title above.

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