That's one of the stupidest things Clinton has said IMO.
Without the SPR, do you know where prices would have been after Katrina?
It was that SPR that saved your asses. The challenge Bush faced after Katrina, was in re-topping the SPR.
To do so at the time would have caused the prices to go even higher, ...something no one, not the public, not industry could have afforded, so he left it abyssmally low. You're all lucky that another hurricane didn't come along 'cause you all would have been royally rogered. And if my understanding is correct, he has not topped it up since. Do you know how vulnerable that makes you?