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Obama Releases Oil Reserves To Counter Lost Crude

RENEE MONTAGNE, Host:

NPR's Jeff Brady has more.

JEFF BRADY: Patrick DeHaan with GasBuddy.com says tapping the reserve should send prices below the current national average of $3.61 a gallon.

PATRICK DEHAAN: The national average has already been moving lower almost every day here for the past five or six weeks or so. That will likely continue. We may see some accelerated drops here in the next week or so.

BRADY: Philip Verleger at the University of Calgary says that's because prices in the middle of the U.S. already are benefiting from extra supply, largely because of Canada's oil sands.

PHILIP VERLEGER: Consumers in the Midwest will not see as much because the price in the Midwest has already been much lower.

BRADY: Jeff Brady, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

Jeff Brady is a National Desk Correspondent based in Philadelphia, where he covers energy issues and climate change. Brady helped establish NPR's environment and energy collaborative which brings together NPR and Member station reporters from across the country to cover the big stories involving the natural world.