[HangnJudge]

The only excuse I can see for this for this
is that the USA reserves are being kept
in strategic reserve, until other countries
use up their deposits

otherwise the current course
smells treasonous

[elkfersupper]

The only excuse I can see for this for this is that the USA reserves are being kept in strategic reserve, until other countries use up their deposits

You can't use it up.

It is a self-renewing and self-sustaining resource.

Your fellow citizens have just stupidly restricted where people can go to exploit it.

It's kind of like the smoking bans - the end result of decades of propaganda-generated hysteria.

The electorate asked for it, the electorate got it. The chief danger of pure democracy.

We should all be happy that the "system" apparently works.