Do you believe that it makes any sense to say to our young men and women that we export into the Middle East to protect this supply of oil that we are not going to use the weapon we have here in the United States--the Strategic Petroleum Reserve--in order to keep the price of oil low and not allow Iran to threaten us unnecessarily?
Questioning the rationale of not using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for oil price stability.
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