[m: secrecy is for the locations of the crude oil storage facilities, additional roll will be done for green energy]

Oil

Currently, India only has a strategic reserve capacity of 11.83 million tonnes of crude oil, enough to supply around 20 days of consumption (probably more like 15 days with economic growth and the other countries in the Union). Given Israel's near-exhaustion of its much longer-lasting strategic reserves (270 days) and RIGS threats that sent USA diplomats scrambling to find adequate replacements, it is clear that in this day and age, we must prepare for the worst. 10 oil-storing caverns similar to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve will be dug in mountains across safe sites in the Himalayas with the objective of providing 60 days more crude oil to the nation total (the logic being, if China pushes past the Himalayas somehow, we're sort of screwed anyways). In addition, 2 separate facilities will be constructed for specifically military purposes buried deep underground in mountains, one under Anamudi and one in the foothills around Shimla, in addition to emergency refineries next to them. These will provide the military specifically around a year of refined, usable fuel, given that military usage only makes up a tiny portion of overall fuel consumption in the USA. Finally, Indian refiners will be ordered to store 90 days of crude oil in reserve, since they already store around 60 days.

This comes out to around 185 days of full crude oil usage and then a year of military usage in addition. Construction for these is expected to finish in 2030 (except the Indian refiners, which will finish by start of 2028 as they use more conventional industry above-ground tanks, and buying the crude oil to fill them up will take until 2032 with Houston cooperation.

Weaning off of oil

Massive investments in cheap, scalable green technologies (developed partially by Brazil but whatever) will have to be underwent in order to

With existing investments resulting in Modi's 2022 goal of 100GW from Solar Power being surpassed by now, additional investment in solar power is necessary from a strategic perspective. An ambitious goal to hit 200GW from solar power by 2031 is floated given India's high solar insolation and history with solar power.

Similarly, the USA is redoubling efforts in hydropower. 2020 figures were around 46GW a year, but it is estimated that around 148 GW is ultimately viable and economically exploitable. Given the long lead times of many hydropower projects, a goal of 100GW is floated for 2031, with full capacity of 148GW being reached around 2035.

As of 2020, around 39GW of electricity was produced through wind power. With $8 billion investment into offshore windpower installations built by Brazilian companies, a target is set of 100GW by 2033.

Just as importantly, we must figure out how to store energy, since none of these sources besides maybe hydropower produce constant amounts of electricity so without a way of large scale electricity storage, we can't operate these renewable sources efficiently. In addition, it's a national security plus to have reserves of electricity so that we don't have to dip as much into crude oil reserves for that purpose. 100GW worth of pumped storage facilities will be built in the himalayan mountains, resulting in very good efficiencies as small amounts of water can carry large amounts of gravitational energy given the same evaporation due to massively varying heights.

These measures aren't meant to completely replace oil burning for electricity (to do so would be economic suicide for our refining business anyways), but simply reduce the necessity of crude oil imports to the point where reserves and trustworthy allies such as Houston can carry us in an emergency.