Bloombergi andmetel tegi Obama ettepaneku kasutada reserve kütusehindade mõjutamiseks.
Bloomberg.com reports democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama called on the government to release light crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to drive down gasoline prices, which have created a drag on the economy. In what an adviser called a "refinement'' of his stance on using the reserve, the Illinois senator proposed releasing light crude, which is easier to refine, and replace it later with heavy crude oil in a swap intended to retain reserve levels. "We should sell 70 million barrels of oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve for less expensive crude, which in the past has lowered gas prices within two weeks,'' Obama said in a speech on energy policy today in Lansing, Michigan. Obama previously has said he opposes tapping the 727 mln-barrel-capacity reserve -- established to buffer a sudden disruption in supply -- purely as a brake on prices.
