Obama Administration Trying to Fool the American People Over Oil Prices: Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is Masking Our Real Problems on Domestic Energy

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Congressman Jeff Landry (Republican, New Iberia), the House's leading authority on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, today chastised the Obama Administration for even considering a release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

"Releasing oil from the strategic reserve is like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound," said Landry. "The dramatic increase of oil prices is direct result of America's failure to have a realistic energy policy. Our real strategic reserve is sitting right in the Gulf of Mexico, where we should be drilling aggressively for more American-made energy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil."

"Since taking office -- the President has killed leases in Alaska, refused to issue EPA permits, and imposed offshore drilling moratoriums," Landry continued. "Today's prices demonstrate that the President's green-energy policy is ineffective. We can work toward alternative sources of energy, but we need to use our energy resources now. We must begin to immediately produce more traditional domestic energy."

Landry concluded: "High prices in oil are not caused by a shortage of supply -- we have the supply all over our nation. They're caused by the Administration's refusal to allow domestic energy production. If the Administration is really concerned about the impact of oil prices on our economic recovery, they will allow us to utilize our natural resources immediately."

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