Storm, there is a law for the reserve to be sold off by 2015.
MP could buy up a lot but then are stuck with having to find a place to store it so it doesn't leak and yet still able to access it.
There are only so many caverns that you can store it in and able to get to.
It is still a finite resource unless you make it so that the fusion reactors can make more of it and you have a place to store that, what is the point of it in the first place?
The balloons leech the stuff like crazy, it's not like you can just get some and keep it forever in the balloon due to helium permutation you have to regularly fill the balloons or it's gone forever.
The military itself has been having problems logistically for some time with it's fleet.
Logistics is going to be everything, if it isn't practical it isn't worth it.
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