Posted on 02/25/2012 5:03:50 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Democrats to Obama: Tap strategic oil reserve
By: Darren Goode February 25, 2012 06:26 PM EST
Gasoline prices are on a dramatic rise, and everybody's got advice for the White House.
No surprise, Republicans are reviving their "Drill, Baby Drill" catcalls from 2008, but liberals in Washington are getting nervous and asking President Barack Obama to tap into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a potential panacea for escalating gasoline prices.
Picking up on the themes of a speech he gave Thursday at the University of Miami, Obama used his weekly radio address Saturday to remind Americans of his view that if prices at the pump rise as expected in the coming months, “there are no quick fixes to this problem, and you know we can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices.”
He also warned that rising gas prices could hurt any economic recovery. While there is “no silver bullet that will bring down gas prices or reduce our dependence on foreign oil overnight … what we can do is get our priorities straight, and make a sustained, serious effort to tackle this problem,” Obama said.
The potential danger to the economy — and the president's reelection chances — have liberals urging the White House to unleash the SPR now, before it's too late. The national average for a gallon of unleaded gasoline was $3.65 on Friday, according to AAA.
“Selling reserve oil on the open market is the one step that we know will reduce oil and gasoline prices in the immediate term,” said Daniel Weiss of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. “Every time we sold reserve oil it has lowered oil and gasoline prices. We know it works.”
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“...Another example of why no Democrat should be re-elected in this country—ever....”
You are, of course, correct.
However, America should not forget that every single one of these rat basturds voted for odongoCare. And that alone, should have put every one of them in Leavenworth for treason and violation of oath, not re-election.
I agree with you. No Democrat should EVER be elected again! TRAITORS, ALL of them!
OK now I understand what the strategery is in the Strategic Oil reserve....Elect Dems!
Ain’t going to matter soon....BOZ has other ideas behind that curtain! Out Wunnerful Wizzard of BOZ!
Solara
Yes, Mr. President, if someone could figure that out, it WOULD be great. But you've just admitted that we CAN'T.
And how much friggin' algae would it take to power the country?
If Bush said something this asinine, the comedians would never let it go.
ALL of you are missing the point. Republicans fill up the SPR to safeguard America’s future, Democrats EMPTY the SPR to safeguard their own careers.
Actually, the whole purpose of tapping the national petro reserves is simple to desensitize us to that prior to any possible invasion. (Which means, of course, that there are traitors in our midsts.)
America to Obama: DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW. APPROVE THE PIPE LINE YOU IDIOT!!!
When do you think oil from the SPR was exported?
Summary of 2011 SPR Sale
http://fossil.energy.gov/programs/reserves/spr/sale_2011.html
An oil spill (the democrat party idiot excuse for not drilling) can happen when you tap into reserves just like when you tap into the ground.
Brainless democrats.
Did they ever refill it from last time?
EVERYTHING seems like a frigging joke now.
"Maybe there's a reason I ain't tappin' that!"
Only if a pipe bursts. The SPR don't require new drilling. It is contained in underground salt domes connected by pipes to wells. There is nothing to hook up, just open the valves, put water in and the oil rises up.
Allow the pipeline and they won’t need to find algae or open the reserves.
He’ll wait till July to do that for votes... He could care less about our oil reserve.
I realize it doesn’t require new drilling.
But it does require moving vast quantities of oil over very long distances.
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