The strategic reserve is for strategic purposes; like war. Planes, tanks and ships don't run well on ethenol.
You’re right, you’re right, you’re right.
I have some sympathy that random, very limited withdrawals from the reserve might work to break the cycle of rising oil prices (since speculation generally operates out of a pack psychology), but your fundamental point is unarguable - at some point the Straights of Hormuz are going to explode, and at that point whatever we’ve got in the strategic reserve is going to be too little.