We have identified a real-world, physical problem (look in the big tank, no oil).
The proposed solution here is - and I think this is a fair paraphrase - "well we can print money and people will trade oil for that".
This is an almost absurdly high-risk assumption. Financial solutions might just not work to fix physical problems. That sort of plan is pretty close to an endgame where the US will collapse because it no longer has the energy to sustain complex society. If there is a day where the US needs the strategic reserve - which we haven't seen yet - money will not solve the problem. That is, in fact, the reason why there even is a strategic reserve instead of a JIT strategy.
The accountants might recognise it through inflation or some other metric, but attempting to execute this plan could literally involve hitherto unknown catastrophe in the US, like being invaded or mass starvation. One of those things that is supposed to happen only in other countries.