In the corridors of executive power, officials are reaching back into the Cold War's legal arsenal to confront a quiet vulnerability in modern American life: the nation's oil refining capacity has not kept pace with the demands of a complex economy, and the gap between crude abundance and refined scarcity is beginning to show. The White House is weighing whether the Defense Production Act — a statute born of mid-century industrial mobilization — can be stretched to compel private industry toward a more resilient energy future. It is a moment that reveals how old tools are perpetually rediscove