"I'm just here for the gasoline."
If Mad Max were around to see this, he would warn us. He would say quietly that if we stop filling our oil reserves, there will be no fuel for military equipment, much less planes to tomorrow-morrow-land, when disaster strikes. But no one would listen. In the post-apocalyptic world of gaslessness, where will our anti-semitic Aussie pal Mel be to save us?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is directing President Bush to temporarily halt the shipment of thousands of barrels of oil a day to the government’s emergency reserve.
Both Democrats and Republicans said such shipments make no sense when oil is costing more than $120 a barrel and could better be used to add supplies to a tight market and possibly lower prices. Senators voted 97-1 Tuesday to suspend the shipments until the end of the year.
Bush has said the 70,000 barrels of oil being diverted to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is such a small amount that it does not affect energy markets. Many senators disagreed.
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