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The United States has been quietly draining its emergency oil stockpile at a record pace, and one analyst says the moment it runs dry could trigger a price shock the market is not prepared for.

A new blockade will disrupt the supply of a lot of the world's oil. The U.S. previously tapped into strategic oil reserves to keep prices down, but those reserves are at their lowest level in decades.

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