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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?
    rectang · 1790653197 · focus · HN ↗
    There have been Republican elected representatives who have confronted Trump. With very few exceptions, they have gone down to defeat in subsequent Republican primary elections.
    The Republican electorate will not stand for Trump being constrained or criticized by Republicans. That's why there are almost no remaining Republican elected officials who are willing to confront the Trump administration aside from a handful of lame ducks like Tillis and Massie.
    Functionally, the Republican congress is unable to hold the Trump administration to account, because Republican voters have ensured that it cannot. The only way Trump will ever be constrained is via Democrats.
    parineum · 1790654380 · focus · HN ↗
    Trump's influence has been fading and history shows he'll have practically none as a lame duck. The spell is breaking. As they say, at first gradually then all at once.
    rectang · 1790655526 · focus · HN ↗
    Who knows what the future holds? Right now he can get away with anything: paying for partisan ads with taxpayer money, shaking down industry for bribes to pay for various monuments... There is no amount of corruption or incompetence that this Republican congress would not enable.
    The majority of the Republican electorate demands an authoritarian leader unconstrained by the rule of law. Trump won't be the last.

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