I disagree that incremental/marginal prosperity is something for the SPR to properly address.
I think the SPR should be there to prevent existential threats to prosperity.
We should not be tapping the SPR to move prosperity up from "moderately prosperous" to "moderately prosperous plus an unmeasurable but negligible amount of prosperity." We should not even use it to move up from "moderately non-prosperous."
It should be for emergencies...actual national emergencies, not national difficulties or national challenges.
There are better levers to pull than the SPR that won't put the country at risk.
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