Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve won’t help lower gas
prices to $2.50, and it won’t help the President win voters who
are afraid his energy policies are bringing the country back to
the ‘70s era of long gas lines, bell bottoms, leisure suits,
“Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific,” and “Please Don’t Squeeze the
Charmin.”  So, please don’t squeeze the SPR, which is already
low. Because "Draw, Baby, Draw" is not an energy policy. And it
won’t move the needle on gas prices, and even if it does, that
blip will be only temporary.  President Barack Obama is now
mulling tapping the SPR, as he now says on the campaign stump
that we can’t drill our way out of the high-gas problem, because
that won’t move the needle.  So then why tap the SPR?    It only
moved the needle temporarily last time it was tapped, when Libya
was red hot. It only moved the needle slightly when President
George W. Bush tapped it after Katrina in the fall of 2005. Gas
still went to $2.98 by July 2006 from a $2.93 national average
in September 200