If you thought the Biden administration's tapping of the U.S. strategic oil reserves was a big deal, look at the major moves being made up North:
Canadian maple syrup producers are tapping the country's emergency reserve of the sticky sweet stuff as it looks to meet demand amid a global shortage.
The Quebec Maple Syrup Producers — a group known as the world's maple syrup cartel and sometimes compared to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries grip on oil — announced this week that it's pulling some 50 million pounds of syrup from its strategic reserve.
That's the most the group has released from the reserve in a single season since 2008 and amounts to about half of the entire stockpile.
This might seem like kind of a gag. But honestly, it would probably be a pretty big shakeup if the world suddenly didn't have enough maple syrup, right? I mean it's not like syrup is tantamount to clean drinking water or oil, but still...it's a pretty big global product, you know?
