The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, this country’s first...

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, this country’s first line of defense against a foreign oil embargo, is vulnerable to a terrorist attack, congressional investigators and Energy Department officials have reported. “Improvements are needed in the (reserve) security program,” Keith Fultz of the congressional General Accounting Office told the House Government Operations subcommittee on environment, energy and natural resources. According to Fultz, a mock terrorist attack on the 550-million barrel reserve in Louisiana and Texas last year symbolically damaged or destroyed facilities considered vital to recovering the oil from underground caverns.