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Funding Bill Would Dismantle Strategic
Reserve, Sell Off Stockpiles

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Posted By: MHOOD, 3/5/2024 10:17:38 PM

A funding bill is currently being discussed in Congress that could have catastrophic consequences for the Northeast in the event of a natural disaster or other emergency. Buried on Page 441 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act is a proposal to sell off the Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve, which contains 1 million barrels of gasoline. The goal of the bill is to appropriate funds for several federal agencies, including the Department of Energy. It stipulates that, once the NGSR is shut down, the department can’t create a new reserve unless funding for it is “explicitly requested in advance in an annual budget

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Nimby 3/5/2024 10:21:06 PM (No. 1671399)
Northeast keeps electing Democrats!! Time they wake up and smell “gasoline “
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Birddog 3/5/2024 10:59:36 PM (No. 1671410)
set up, established by Obama at an initial cost of many $millions, it has NEVER been used...costs over $16Million per year just to hold 1milion barrels, not even a 2 day supply for the cities nearest to it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Birddog 3/5/2024 11:03:47 PM (No. 1671413)
700,000 barrels located in the New York Harbor area; 200,000 barrels positioned in the Boston area; and 100,000 in South Portland, Maine.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: MissMann 3/5/2024 11:44:51 PM (No. 1671443)
Thanks, #2. This is the kind of info that makes Lucianne so valuable.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: weirdone 3/6/2024 12:02:48 AM (No. 1671448)
“At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? If destruction be our lot, we ourselves must be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” Abraham Lincoln, 1838 As Abraham Lincoln predicted we are currently in the process of committing national suicide. Under the so-called leadership of the Democrat Party and the Biden Administration, over the last 3 years, we have gone from energy independence to once again relying on an uncertain supply purchased at ever increasing costs. The Biden administration has terminated the Keystone pipe line, restricted sale of leases on federal lands, drained the National Petroleum Reserve, restricted the sale of LPG and is now in the process of selling off the Northeast Gasoline Reserve. They have depleted the militaries arms and ammunition in their dubious support of the war in the Ukraine, destroyed military recruitment with the disastrous pullout from Afghanistan, and emboldened our advisories around the world. Their economic policies have decimated small business and the middle class with hyper inflation and rising interest rates. With the addition of their open boarder policies, no one could devise a better plan for national suicide.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: smokincol 3/6/2024 2:18:03 AM (No. 1671481)
any House member or Senator (repub or demcommie) who votes for this bill should have their citizenship revoked and be given a one-way trip to Soviet Russia or Communist China
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Trigger2 3/6/2024 4:51:45 AM (No. 1671507)
That's demonrats for you - destroying the USA and its citizens one step at a time.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 3/6/2024 6:48:25 AM (No. 1671552)
We know they want food shortages. Gas shortages might make their electric cars seem more viable.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: snowoutlaw 3/6/2024 8:01:06 AM (No. 1671609)
Best to sell it now before Trump lowers the prices.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Strike3 3/6/2024 9:31:37 AM (No. 1671683)
Another democrat scheme to raise money to be wasted and weaken the country at the same time.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: rochow 3/6/2024 8:43:22 PM (No. 1672151)
Perhaps the moron in the WH is selling the supply reserves to his dearest friends, the Chinese Commies?
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