But it seems to me there's a larger criticism to make. In fact, Gore talks about saving the surplus the way smack addicts talk about their secret stashes. He'll treat it the same way. Stick with me, people. No better example can be found than his decision to ask Clinton to release oil from the reserve.
Oil is a commodity and commodities are essentially fungible.
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is, economically speaking, a surplus. Selling the oil is no different than spending money to subsidize oil prices. What makes this even more hypocritical is that Al Gore was against releasing the oil six weeks ago. What makes this the Godzilla of hypocrisy smashing downtown Tokyo is that Gore has written passionately about how important it is to raise gas prices. Okay, so this is what passes for passionate writing by Gore.