I'd say if Bush says it's a bad idea and won't help, then we go ahead and do the exact opposite of what he claims... he hasn't got anything right in seven years.

"20 million (barrels) the nation uses every day."

"The reserve holds about 700 million barrels"

We are approaching hurricane season. All it will take is destruction of rigs in the Gulf to increase prices dramatically

Do you think these politicians will step up to the plate and admit that suspending delivery to the reserve was a mistake if that occurs?

"Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.) said he would try to add a measure that would suspend the oil deliveries to a war-funding bill. "I think it's nuts, at $120 a barrel for oil, to put up to 70,000 barrels a day underground," he said Wednesday."

Where does the oil for the reserve come from??

The oil is delivered from oil companies as payment in kind for royalties owed for pumping oil from federal land.

Of course it wouldn't bring down the prices. GWB cannot have that until he's bled us dry.