The strategic reserve is in place for shortages or oil embargos and not to artificially keep the price of gasoline down.

China tried to do that and now they have problems of monumental proportions.

Drill in ANWAR, the caribu and reindeer seem to like it, and let the FREE MARKET decide how much gasoline should cost, when alternative fuels become economically viable and when consumers decide what to drive, not the government.

The government is entirely responsible for this mess in the first place. Liberals have long and loudly bitched about building refineries, nuclear power plants and any other sensible means of generating energy in the name of the enviroment. Now these same morons want to artificially reduce the price of gas to drive up demand, decrease conservation efforts and make us more reliant on foreign oil than becoming self sufficient.

Will someone explain this to the Liberals please?