Strategic Oil Reserves

Congress has another brilliant method of reducing gas prices:

CNN.COM Strategic Oil Reserves

Estimated savings: 1 cent to 25 cents per gallon. I guess you can pack your bags and take that road trip across the country now.

Furthermore, it's strange that we drill for oil and pump it out of one hole, only to buy it from the market and drop it down another, in this case, an abandoned salt mine set up as the strategic oil reserves.

We could have been lazy about it and just left it in the first hole.

I've got an idea: Why don't we take Alaska's ANWAR reserve and designate it our Strategic Oil Reserves? That way, we can just leave the oil in Alaska, save money by not extracting it, let the caribou live in peace, and have a huge oil reserve which won't cost the taxpayers anything and won't increase current demand on oil.

Great! But where's the pork?

Congress will never touch that!