Someone has already suggested that they should do that. like if that solves the problem. It is nothing but a bandaid on a huge problem
There are traps everywhere, and both parties are capable of hypocrisy. If you don’t open the SPR, you didn’t do enough to lower prices. If you do, you used a strategic resource for political gain. The party opposing the POTUS will criticize no matter which way he goes.
Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, all played the SPR card, and now apparently Obama.