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>It will never be emptied during an emergency because politicians won’t agree on it. This rests on speculation about future choices treated as if it were a fac
by jshevek 7y ago
>It will never be emptied during an emergency because politicians won’t agree on it.
This rests on speculation about future choices treated as if it were a fact, which is then used to make an absolutist, fatalistic decree.
And all the while the opposite is often true. If a decision is widely believed to benefit the American people, emergencies are excellent catalysts to motivate bipartisan compromise.
- valuearb 7y agoEven if you think politicians will make wise decisions with it, it’s not useful or necessary. We have hundreds of times more oil in the ground waiting for higher prices, no need to spend taxpayer money to force prices higher just to pump some into another hole.