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To: Ahda who wrote (58883)	9/26/2000 7:28:33 AM
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September 26, 2000 Gore's reserve boast draws renewed fire By Donald Lambro THE WASHINGTON TIMES Al Gore's tendency to exaggerate his role in government came under renewed fire yesterday from the Bush campaign and energy experts who said his claim that he helped establish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a fairy tale. Related Articles • Gore touts Medicare reform to seniors Top Stories • Bush takes over lead in polls • West tells Milosevic to concede defeat • Oil price falls after move by Clinton • Nation watches New York campaign • Marion Jones shadowed by husband's drug scandal • Shipbuilding proposal angers domestic yards "To say that he was involved in the creation of the nation's petroleum reserve is just factually not true. He's becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of American politics," said Dan Sullivan, a spokesman for George W. Bush, the Republican presidential nominee. "There's definitely a pattern to embellish or exaggerate or make up facts," Mr. Sullivan said. In the aftermath of the Clinton administration's decision to sell 30 million barrels of oil from the SPR, Mr. Gore defended the action last Friday, saying that he was in on the ground floor when the nation's defense-related Strategic Petroleum Reserve was established by Congress in 1975. "I've been part of the discussion on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve since the days it was first established," Mr. Gore told reporters. The Gore campaign said over the weekend, when the controversy over Mr. Gore's statement first erupted, that Mr. Gore was in Congress when the oil reserves were being filled and he was a member of a key committee with oversight of the project. Gore campaign spokesman Kym Spell said the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was authorized in 1975 but was not funded until two years later, when Gore worked on the project as a member of a House Commerce subcommittee on energy. In fact, after the oil storage reserve was authorized and signed into law in 1975 — two years before Mr. Gore was in Congress — it was being filled with oil by the middle of 1977, about five months after he became a member of the House of Representatives. Energy experts said yesterday that Mr. Gore could not have played any role in the establishment or development of the oil reserve at that point because $760 million had already been appropriated and spent to build the storage facilities and they were in the process of being filled a few months after he was sworn into office. "It was in the original 1975 legislation to fill it up by 1 billion barrels of oil, and they started filling it on July 21, 1977," said Ed Porter an energy analyst at the American Petroleum Institute. Other independent analysts also maintained yesterday that Mr. Gore's claim was not true. "It's just another one of his wonderful fantasy exaggerations," said Angela Antonelli, director of economic policy at the Heritage Foundation.(cont) washtimes.com