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Calling A Halt

Posted on April 11, 2008

The management of the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve has long been a bone of contention between Congressional Republicans and Democrats, with the former tending to support the administration's fill-at-any-price strategy and the latter generally supporting a more interventionist approach. Senator McCain's call yesterday for a halt to SPR additions, until oil prices are lower, signals an important shift. If the government followed his suggestion, the results might be more dramatic than anyone expects, because of the limited size and nearly unlimited leverage of the domestic market for ligh...

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