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U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982

182 points · 234 comments · thelastgallon

bix6 · 1790652307 · focus · HN ↗
So seriously, what is the administrations intention here? They’ve used all the missiles and drained all the gas. Are they trying to get the U.S. invaded?
1. toomuchtodo · 1790652351 · focus · HN ↗
  Keep fuel prices low enough using the SPR to try to not lose at midterms. They don’t care what happens after, just as they don’t care about their constituents losing their Medicaid.
  The cost of putting unsophisticated grifters in the ultimate position of power.
  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  (Green New Deal via incompetence)
  1. mahboi · 1790652543 · focus · HN ↗
    Shouldn't they at least care about the presidential election 2 years after that?
    toomuchtodo · 1790652617 · focus · HN ↗
    Why? He can’t run again or will die of natural causes, and the cult support goes with him when he goes.
    <a href="https://x.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/727604522156228608" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/727604522156228608
    > If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it. —- Lindsey Graham, May 3, 2016
    mahboi · 1790652763 · focus · HN ↗
    I meant the Republican Party should care. I get why Trump doesn't.
    Barrin92 · 1790653553 · focus · HN ↗
    most of them have been replaced, or are threatened to be replaced if they don't tow the party line.
    It's not a traditional party in the American sense any more, there's no real policy making behind the scenes, it's basically the Trump family enriching itself and a rabid base enabling it. The institutional part that supposed to be the brain of the whole operation has left the building
    peterbecich · 1790658336 · focus · HN ↗
    To your point about replacement, it is evident to me Trump himself has orchestrated this thing over the past 11 years, as none of his associates have been part of the inner circle for that entire span of time.
    mahboi · 1790697076 · focus · HN ↗
    I can't really think of a time when a major American party let its members go against the line.

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