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Obama, GOP Want To Sell Off 40 Percent Of US Strategic Oil Reserves To Fund Gov’t Programs
Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | 10/28/2015 | Michael Bastasch

Posted on 10/31/2015 5:45:29 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com

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To: dandiegirl

not ‘again”. STILL!!!


41 posted on 10/31/2015 6:21:36 PM PDT by V K Lee (TRUMP to triumph follow the step! TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP MAKING AMERICA GREAT)
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To: Jet Jaguar

How better to kick the oil industry when it’s down.


42 posted on 10/31/2015 6:30:37 PM PDT by LibertyOh
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

The federal government owns 640 million acres. @ an average of $3,020 per acre that is almost $2 trillion. Lots of it is top quality park land worth hundreds of times that. Sell some of that along with the mineral rights in lands they keep and direct that money to the national debt!

When someone or some business goes bankrupt, liquidation is in order.

Sell the White House and the Senate and Congress along with the Supreme court Buildings.

That is some prime time real estate. Someone would love to live there. Heck they can turn the rotunda into a shopping mall!

Let them all meet at the Motel 6 on Fourth St. It is better than they deserve! They can even stay there, two to a room! We will pick up the tab. The President can have the room with the Jacuzzi! He and Reggie Love, they will get good use out of it!

Limit the Congressional session to six weeks in August and September. Disconnect the Air conditioning and drain the pool in order to incentivise them to do their work and go home.

Sell all the government office buildings and lay off 80% of the federal workforce, then cut the remaining by 10% and you would still have twice the amount needed to annoy every American citizen.

Sell the fleet of jets used by the government employees, Senators and congressmen. Get them stand by flights on Southwest and a Rapid Rewards card. They only stop four or five times for a cross country trip!

Sell Air Force One. Buy an old mothballed 737 from Southwest for the Long Legged Mac Daddy and limit his flights to once a quarter and no farther than 500 miles at a time. Charge him for any millage over that.

Lots of ways to save and make money without selling the Oil reserve at less than half the price they paid fr it!


43 posted on 10/31/2015 6:35:02 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Instead of selling off the Strategic Oil Reserve how about selling off the Federal lands in the Western states?


44 posted on 10/31/2015 6:38:33 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Great idea. Buy high and sell low. Brilliant!


45 posted on 10/31/2015 6:39:08 PM PDT by jim_trent
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
Buy high, sell low.

That's the way the do it in feral government land.

46 posted on 10/31/2015 6:39:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Is the pope Catholic?)
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To: BBell

Bingo -
You’re the only one to really see this proposed plan for what it is.
It is a deliberate act to weaken us ahead of near future economic crash, and war conflict
There is no incompetence with this bunch
They are the wrench-in-the-works team.

They killed our domestic oil production.
They’ve forbidden Keystone pipeline.
They’ve killed coal.
And once they sell off strategic oil, that would be a fine time for a domestic energy crisis, and war.

Yeah, it’s treason.


47 posted on 10/31/2015 6:40:29 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

We can sell off SPR oil, and export crude, just as soon as we import 0% oil from foreign sources.

Anything less is just looting for short term gain.

It’s strategic for a reason.


48 posted on 10/31/2015 6:42:09 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

More idiotic gimmicks to keep the gravy train rolling.


49 posted on 10/31/2015 6:45:38 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

No one in congress should be re-elected. NO ONE!


50 posted on 10/31/2015 6:47:40 PM PDT by Rapscallion ("I never had sex with that server. Never.")
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To: 867V309

Not only will they lose money on the deal, it will drive oil prices down further, putting American oil producers in even worse shape. Maybe that is part of the plan.


51 posted on 10/31/2015 6:47:44 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: VTenigma

This idiocy shows its the beginning of the end for free wheeling welfare state spending. The situation is untenable.


52 posted on 10/31/2015 6:48:17 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: ClearCase_guy

They are so stupid they would buy the lottery tickets in Illinois where they are so broke they can’t pay the winners.


53 posted on 10/31/2015 6:49:18 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Jim Robinson

This is outright theft from the American taxpayers.


54 posted on 10/31/2015 6:49:39 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

How many people realize the GOP just passed a budget that once again RAIDED Social Security...something the Democrats were blamed for. Wouldn’t put anything past them at this point.


55 posted on 10/31/2015 6:49:44 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

GOP suckered AGAIN


56 posted on 10/31/2015 6:51:17 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Smokin' Joe

It illustrates the power of government to destroy the private sector.


57 posted on 10/31/2015 6:51:41 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: MarchonDC09122009
I'm sure the ChiComs and Russians love it.

Heres to Obama for ruining the U.S. for us.

58 posted on 10/31/2015 6:53:18 PM PDT by BBell
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

It’s time the war went hot.


59 posted on 10/31/2015 6:53:54 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t we start The Strategic Oil Reserve when we were at the mercy of OPEC?

In case nobody noticed, we will be swimming in Domestic Oil for another 400 Years.

The days of needing the SOR are long past. Now it sounds like just another Government Boondoggle.

Did we have a Strategic Whale Oil Reserve a couple of hundred years ago?


60 posted on 10/31/2015 6:55:20 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Republicans hold Debates while Democrats hold Auctions.)
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