There really wasn't a question in the first place.

The article mentioned that it might be good timing to start filling soon, and that the Energy Department is looking at it, but did not imply that someone, Bush or anyone else, was somehow holding up the process.

The sinister implications are all in Bowser's head.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve web page is here, and the current inventory schedule is here.

Current capacity is 727 million barrels, and expansion work is under way to find sites to increase this capacity to 1 billion.

Most of the planned future filling involves repayment of disbursements due to hurricane problems. I don't know what the eventual numbers will actually be.