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What was Obama's real reason for releasing oil from the strategic reserves?
my qustioning mind | 6/26/2011 | Abathar

Posted on 06/26/2011 5:26:14 PM PDT by Abathar

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Just curious, I fashioned a new tinfoil hat today and thought I'd try it on.
1 posted on 06/26/2011 5:26:22 PM PDT by Abathar
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To: Abathar

Do you mean an AFDB?
http://zapatopi.net/afdb/


2 posted on 06/26/2011 5:29:22 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Abathar
It was to placate the Europeans who used to get a lot of oil from Libya before Zero sent in William Ayers and the Muslim Brotherhood.
3 posted on 06/26/2011 5:29:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If Sarah Palin really was unelectable, state-run media would be begging the GOP to nominate her.)
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To: Abathar

Do something, even if it’s wrong

(note he dithered for two months and by the time he decided, the problem was already diminishing)


4 posted on 06/26/2011 5:31:46 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: Abathar

Election season has begun.


5 posted on 06/26/2011 5:32:00 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: Abathar

one component was to take global action with his 27 world comrades.


6 posted on 06/26/2011 5:32:00 PM PDT by ken21 (liberal + rino progressive media hate palin, bachman, cain...)
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To: Abathar

Payoff to Goldman Sachs oil traders to make sure they’ll get their bonuses this year.


7 posted on 06/26/2011 5:32:11 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Mine is WAY nicer that those...


8 posted on 06/26/2011 5:33:23 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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Obummer did this because George Soro’s told him to do so. Soro’s wants to sell the replacement oil to the us at today’s prices. He will make billions of dollars from it. In turn he will fund Obmmer’s campaign again with plenty of money stolen from the American people.

This was all about money to Obummers friends. It will cost us billions or trillions.


9 posted on 06/26/2011 5:34:32 PM PDT by ncfool (The new USSA - United Socialist States of AmeriKa. Welcome to Obummers world or Obamaville USSA.I)
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That is exactly what I was thinking. Is there any way of determining if their trading patterns took a sudden turn just before the announcement? As Blago said - “I’ve got this thing, and its ******* GOLDEN, and if they think I’m just going to give it away, they’re crazy.” (paraphrasing)


10 posted on 06/26/2011 5:37:08 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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Three reasons, make friends money, he was told to and told was good PR.


11 posted on 06/26/2011 5:41:41 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.)
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To: Abathar

When it comes to the motives and agenda of Obama and his commie, radical cohorts and their agenda, NO thought, idea or theory is so outlandish that it would require a tin foil hat.

Remember who primarily funded Obama’s 2008 campaign. An evil billionaire that is also a known manipulator of currencies and of governments. Soros is the epitomy of every evil mastermind that has ever been portrayed in the comics or in fictional books and movies. Only....he’s real.


12 posted on 06/26/2011 5:41:52 PM PDT by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie.)
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One possibility, certainly, is that some of the big-time insiders shorted oil just before the announcement, and then quickly covered.

Half the oil was released from the U.S. reserves, and half from the EU. That does make me wonder a bit about the short theory, since it would have involved quite a few more people knowing about it beforehand.

Another possibility is that he just wanted to look like he was doing something.


13 posted on 06/26/2011 5:42:08 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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better poll ratings.


14 posted on 06/26/2011 5:44:27 PM PDT by Chickensoup (The right to bear arms is proved to prevent government genocide. Protect yourself!)
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By jove, I think you’ve got it!

When all other possible explanations make no sense whatsoever, the one remaining explanation must be correct: that the Krook from Kenya did this simply to enrich a chosen few.


15 posted on 06/26/2011 5:44:38 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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By jove, I think you’ve got it!

When all other possible explanations make no sense whatsoever, the one remaining explanation must be correct: that the Krook from Kenya did this simply to enrich a chosen few.


16 posted on 06/26/2011 5:44:38 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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As an official Sorros butt boy, he was told to do it as it will weaken the country in the future.


17 posted on 06/26/2011 5:48:40 PM PDT by Bowtie52
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To: Abathar

The answer is easy: Obama will do anything to weaken America.

Releasing 30M barrels is literally a drop in the bucket. It may lower prices slightly for a week, but they will then climb back to where they started because there is no extra production to keep the extra oil in the marketplace.

This also means we will have to replace that oil at today’s market prices. So... we’ve lost some of our emergency reserve, we’re out more than we paid originally to replace it, and the final result is higher prices at the pump. A win-win-win if you’re an anti-American communist retard.


18 posted on 06/26/2011 5:50:59 PM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? You are a socialist idiot with no rational argument.)
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To: bert

The price of oil was laready dropping in stages. In his usual bastardizing style, he merely tried to capitalize on the already clear trend so he could claim he was responsible for lowering our pump prices. Barry plans his day with an eye to how he can lie for best effect.


19 posted on 06/26/2011 5:51:09 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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What was Obama's real reason for releasing oil from the strategic reserves?

So it's not there when we really need it. From their point of view, there should be no SPR.

The SPR provides a way in case the SHTF to keep the domestic refineries going so as to supply our armed forces.

Our armed forces require a lot of refined petroleum to keep moving and be effective. The Left wants to cut us off and leave us completely vulnerable to foreign powers when the major conflict occurs.

20 posted on 06/26/2011 5:51:30 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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