Posted on 08/06/2004 3:23:27 PM PDT by ambrose
Bush wants to make sure the nation has a supply of oil in case of national emergency.
Kerry wants to stop stockpiling oil for political points.
The difference between the two can be summarized right there.
Ding ding ding!!!! We have a winnuh!
this is crazy.
exactamundo
sure, but if Bush isn't around when Iran's oil is disrupted - it won't matter much.
Hard to believe - but he may actually consider our national security more important than scoring some cheap political points.
Thank God the adults are in charge.
"The Interior Department said it was on track to fill the emergency reserve to its 700-million-barrel capacity by the middle of next year."
Bush is doing the right thing, it can't happen soon enough.
Didn't Clinton release some oil from the strategic reserves before the 200 elections to try to keep oil prices low, to bolster Gore?
Bush wants to make sure the nation has a supply of oil in case of national emergency.
Kerry wants to stop stockpiling oil for political points.
The difference between the two can be summarized right there.
if Kerry wins - we won't have any national security. that's the most important thing right now - stopping Kerry. aggravating already sky high oil prices isn't helping achieve that.
fill 'em to the brim..
Big Torch(es) may get lit soon..
There are economic consequences as well as a deficit impact for choosing to increase the strategic reserve while supplies are this tight and prices are this high. Gasoline refinement is continuing at summer pace and they haven't started diverting to refining home heating oil in the capacity they typically do by now. This will have an impact this winter as well. Try looking at the issue without any political blinders for a moment.
Maybe, just maybe, the price of oil has nothing to do with supply and demand .... how about the cost of oil transportation security and the 20% devaluation of the dollar?
What if these prices are cheap compared to what may come? We don't have enough info to know this. If Kerry wins the election over this, God help us all anyway.
I see, gamble the SPR just to score a few points with the short-term memory of a few swing voters so that we can have our pants around our britches when the Islamofascists hit the Mid-East petroleum infrastructure. Golly, why didn't I think of that.
Yes. Thats exactly what he did.
sure, let's toss a few more votes away. Bush is way ahead, isn't he?
Sorry - pants around our ankles.
there is no future past November 2nd if Kerry wins. that's the way we have to think. is that political expediency? you're damn right it is.
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