Barack proposing tapping the nation's oil reserves to help drive down gasoline prices

Question

What do you think?

Answer 1

Give him a few days, he will likely change his mind again!  It will likely change several times before the upcoming election.........

Answer 2

It is a good idea, and it has to go along with lifting the ban on drilling for our own oil, plus we need to start new refineries immediately..  

Just giving the OK to start those projects would cause the price of oil to come down, as the Arabs would see that we mean to end their world oil dominance..

After we did those things, then we need to get in gear and come up with a means of transportation that doesn't depend on oil.   and it is possible..

Answer 3

I think it's stupid.  He will propose doing something like this as a sop to the ignorant masses but will not favor opening new areas to exploration.  Heaven forbid he propose something that will have a long term affect.

Answer 4

Gas prices aren't going to come down no matter what either Obama or McCain do.  The oil companies are making a killing becasue we keep driving our massive cars and keep paying the gas prices (sure, we complain, but we keep doing filling those tanks!), so why would they lower prices?  Unless our government forces them to reduce prices, they will continue to charge what they want.  It's up to us to force change.  Find as many ways around the gas prices as you can.  Walk, ride bikes, ride motorcycles, use public transportation, get a hybrid or an electric car.  There are options.  Stop whining about gas prices and force change.  

Answer 5

If we tapped out the whole reserve at the rate we use oil in this country it would be empty in about thirty days. What do you think?

Answer 6

I think it's idiotic and I just posted a similar question.

It's fluff.

It's feel-good fluff to make the sheeple think he's working on the problem.

Answer 7

he might be smarter to get together with T bone pickens, and explore natural gas, of which we have plenty.