"but muh NerGee NDpandantz" is what the conservatards point to as evidence that Trump was different. He wasn't. The oil shortage is due to an under-investment in the industry, due to his administration's response to the pandemic. Biden is doing Trump, harder. That's why it keeps getting worse for you and I...because it's getting better for Biden, Trump, and the rest of the Elite.
Energy Independence just means
exports > imports
That shift started under Obama (I think) when he allowed companies to export finished products. But "energy independence" doesn't mean "we make what we use, we use what we make". For various reasons, we don't have that capacity at the moment.
Oil shortage could be because production was cut back during the pandemnic, and now that we are pulling out of it, the producers like $70/bbl better than $35/bbl - so why make more? So they can make less profit? I wouldn't do that either.
But stifled domestic production does nothing to help that situation. We are at their mercy, and Biden's policies exasperated the issue.
But this reserve dip is a joke. It's a political stunt that - quite literally - does nothing.