In fact, even without a supply disruption, it's hard to see where the oil will come from to meet the growing demand.

Perhaps today the market is slightly less concerned about supply disruptions than it was last week.

"But the possibility of a supply disruption is higher today than it was yesterday."

"Whenever there is a supply disruption or the threat of one, the cost of oil goes up."

But they said oil prices could not continue their strong rebound unless there was a supply disruption.

But there is a more subtle reason to be wary of any major supply disruption.

Even a fear of supply disruptions can have dramatic effects.

Our strategic reserve is sufficiently large enough to guard against any major supply disruption over the next few months.

Yet state and local officials in some parts of our country worry about supply disruption for the short term.

The international agency is the coordinator for emergency oil supplies that could be used in the case of a major supply disruption.