Lund, The DOE doesnt make a move without White-House consultation. The bush admin OKed the knee jerk decision to fill ALL US reserves to capacity in 2002 during a very strong market... Which is interpreted by suppliers as"demand" even though there really was no increase in demand by the consumer. The one time purchase of 40 million barrels used to fill the US reserves to capacity had an immediate effect on consumer level gas prices, to the tune of $100 million dollars per day passed on to the pumps. The sale caused crude to jump from 20 to 30 dollars a barrel while consumer level demand fell due to rising prices.
Thus a snowball effect.


Yes, Bush and his admin (with none other than Dick Cheney as head of the "secret National Energy Policy Group") can have a complete and total impact on gas prices.

Bushs reaction: "We are investigating..."

Uhh, The smoking gun is in your hand mister president.

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