President Bush Told Them NO!!!!

HE IS RIGHT!

By Kristin White, Just Click Editor

Congress has voted to stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, against President Bush, in hopes of saving a few cents a gallon at the gas pump.

70,000 barrels a day are sent to an underground reserve in the Gulf Coast, established after the 1973 Arab oil embargo.

It is believed that this move is a result of public angst at the pump, coupled with the fact that many of the politicians are facing re-election. It was the only thing Congress-both Republican and Democratic agreed on this past Tuesday, May 13.

The Senate voted in the measure by a majority of 97-1. Both Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton left the campaign trail to vote on the measure, and while Senator John McCain supported it, he was absent for the vote. The House approved the measure, as well, with 385-25.

Congress plans to suspend deliveries for the rest of the year, unless oil drops below $75 a barrel. However, they must agree on what type of bill to send to the White House.

President Bush believes that suspending delivery to the reserve will have little if any influence on prices, especially in a country that consumes 21 million barrels a day. Instead Congress is weakening the nation's energy security, as well as not doing enough about domestic production.

There are others in Congress, who believe this measure will not do anything, either, and should be, instead of putting a temporary bandage on a long-term problem, focusing on domestic production.

Not long after agreeing on the measure, both parties went back to attacking each other over the issue, and could not resolve on how to bring about a better solution.

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