Win! Useless Gas Price Reduction Plan Enacted!

Just heard on the teevee that the Energy Department has decided to stop buying oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve starting in July. This will maybe take the price of gas down about a nickel. But the Senate and House both voted for it in record numbers, so Bush had to buckle.

Of course, the price of oil is still rising because Saudi Arabia again said they won't raise production, even after Bush offered them civilian nuclear technology.

So this is a shell game, maybe good in the abstract, but doing nothing near what needs to be done, which is actually wean us off of an oil-based economy.

...by the way, Saudi Arabia still funds terrorism all over the world, and Bush offered them civilian nuclear energy. Isn't that the textbook definition of appeasement?

...Saudi Arabia may simply be out of oil and have nothing left to give. The real story here is that Republicans and Democrats alike like to demagogue on the issue of gas prices, but there's very little we can do about it in the short term, and in the long term the goal has to be to abandon the oil economy in favor of something more sustainable.