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by Someone 3894 days ago
The norm for a country's total reserves is 90 days of imports (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_strategic_petroleum_r...)

US imports are about 1/4 of consumption (http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=32&t=6), so total reserves (including commercial storage) should be around 25 days.

As to Cushing, from both the article and what you say I would be more concerned about losing those pipes than of losing the oil stored there.