Congress Versus Bush

So President Bush comes out saying the problem with our gas prices is because congress has blocked access to the oil fields in our country to oil exploration, which we all know to be fact already. However a queer liberal representative from congress responds to Bush’s “attack” saying that Bush refuses to help also by not releasing some of the Strategic oil reserve! The plan is not to release oil from the reserve, the plan seems to be to stop adding oil to the reserve. That is only 70,000 barrels a day! So when we as a country use 20 million barrels a day, how much will an extra 70k help? That is only .3% of our daily usage!

But of course, if the silly liberals wanted to actually release oil from the reserve, how much would they release? As of June 11 2008 there was 704.9 million barrels in the reserve. How much of that are they thinking about releasing and over what time period? They would have to release a big amount every day in order to make an effect in gas prices, maybe 5 million barrels a day. At that rate we would be out of oil in like 5 months. Is that really worth it for some cheaper gas for only a short period of time?

What happens if we go to war with another country. What happens if Iran goes berserk and mines the straight of Hormuz, and we loose our supply of oil? What if all this happens after we released a bunch of oil out of our reserve? We would not have the fuel to fight a war for very long. This is the exact story of the book “Red Storm Rising” by Tom Clancy

I don’t know about you but I don’t have a problem filling up at the station! There are no stations without gas, no long lines, no fill up limits, no slow pumps, NOTHING! How is this a supply problem if no one anywhere is having problems of any kind finding gas? So how would adding to the supply help if we have plenty of supply to begin with?? I don’t get it! We need to not be buying other people’s oil, that’s the solution.

Stupid Liberals