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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1377947)	10/26/2022 7:05:46 PM
From: miraje	1 Recommendation Recommended By Tenchusatsu Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575421

this part of the op-ed is worth repeating: So is this part. Draining the SPR to buy votes is dangerous and idiotic and should be against the law. Message 34052833 ... It starts with getting the United States to draw down its Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It is a huge stock of crude oil stored in giant caverns that we can draw on in an emergency to offset any cutoff in our domestic production or imports. Last Wednesday, President Biden announced the release of 15 million more barrels from the reserve in December, completing a plan he laid out earlier to release a total of 180 million barrels in an effort to keep gasoline prices at the pump as low as possible — in advance of the midterm elections. (He didn’t say the last part. He didn’t need to.) According to a report in The Washington Post, the reserve contained “405.1 million barrels as of Oct. 14. That’s about 57 percent of its maximum authorized storage capacity of 714 million barrels.” I sympathize with the president (I don't). People were really hurting from $5- and $6-a-gallon gasoline. But using the reserve — which was designed to cushion us in the face of a sudden shut-off in domestic or global production — to shave a dime or a quarter off a gallon of gasoline before elections is a dicey business, (criminal negligence, IMO)

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1377947)	10/26/2022 7:06:27 PM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Recommended By rdkflorida2 Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575421

1. We want to decarbonize our economy as fast as we can to mitigate the very real dangers of climate change. yup 2. We want the cheapest possible gasoline and heating oil prices so we can drive our cars as fast and as much as we want — and never have to put on a sweater indoors or do anything to conserve energy. Electric cars go faster. and you can consume less without conserving because everything is becoming more efficient. 3. We want to tell the petrodictators in Iran, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia to take a hike. See 1 and 2 4. We want to be able to treat U.S. oil and gas companies as pariahs and dinosaurs that should pump us out of this current oil crisis and then go off in the woods and die and let solar and wind take over. True. They should have started heading for the woods in the 90's, but, instead they started to fight with all the vigor that T Rex Tillerson and his predecessor, Lee Raymond, could muster. This isn't a major hang up. All we have to do is nationalize them, and begin a 30 year walk towards the woods, while we power the nation with all the hot air coming from those who are screaming, "How dare you nationalize them?" 5. Oh, and we don’t want any new oil and gas pipelines or wind and solar transmission lines to spoil our backyards. So put panels on your roof, and a battery on your wall, or bury the transmission lines, and make do with the existing pipelines. Dec 13, 2008 Documentary Addicted To Oil part 1 New York Times reporter Thomas L. Friedman looks at both the USA's dependence on foreign oil, and the various "green" technologies that can help break that dependency. == *magical thinking that we can have it all.* 4 out of 5 ain't bad. We can be nice to the oil companies, and treated them like endangered species.