<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Senate votes 97-1 to halt oil reserve shipments : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/"/><tagline>Senate votes 97-1 to halt oil reserve shipments : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-11-18T12:25:53+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Senate votes 97-1 to halt oil reserve shipments]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/61701/1/" /><id>61701</id><summary><![CDATA[Senate votes 97-1 to halt oil reserve shipments]]></summary><issued>2008-05-13T17:04:04+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-13T17:04:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Senate voted Tuesday to temporarily halt the shipment of thousands of barrels of oil a day into the government's emergency reserve. Both Democrats and Republicans said such shipments make no sense when oil is costing more than $120 a barrel.]]></content></entry><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%' style='padding-top:5px;margin-bottom:0px;' class='trh'><tr valign='bottom'><td><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'><tr valign='bottom'><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabs lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-comments'><a href='/politics/l/61701/1/' class='plime2 td mn'>comments (7)</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-related'><a href='/politics/l/61701-related/1/' class='plime td mn'>related</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-share'><a href='/politics/l/61701-share/1/' class='plime td mn'>share</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-history'><a href='/politics/l/61701-history/1/' class='plime td mn'>edit history (0)</a></td></tr></table></td><td class='minitabspc' style='width:100%' valign='middle'><table width='100%'><tr class='regular'><td align='right'> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&lt;</a><span> <b><a class='page-selected td' href='/politics/l/61701/1/'>1</a></b> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&gt;</a></span></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><entry><title><![CDATA[bunnysutra @ 5/14/2008 8:42:33 PM]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/61701/1/atom0_3.rss#q8" /><id>257542</id><summary><![CDATA[The one NO vote was from here in colorado. I saw on the news this morning why --<br/><br/>He said it was because it was tied to the price of gas. That if the cost per barrel went down to 75 or below, they would start buying again. Which, in his reasoning w...]]></summary><issued>2008-05-14T20:42:33+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-14T20:42:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The one NO vote was from here in colorado. I saw on the news this morning why --<br/><br/>He said it was because it was tied to the price of gas. That if the cost per barrel went down to 75 or below, they would start buying again. Which, in his reasoning was not a solution to anything...that it was a 10th of a percent that wouldn't make any sense anyway.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[vexingmodstwo @ 5/13/2008 8:39:52 PM]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/61701/1/atom0_3.rss#q7" /><id>256806</id><summary><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/politics/l/61701/1/#q5"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>hmtksteve</b> : Let me get this straight...<br/><br/>Diverting 70K barrels a day will effect a change in the price of oil but pumping a million barre...]]></summary><issued>2008-05-13T20:39:52+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-13T20:39:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/politics/l/61701/1/#q5"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>hmtksteve</b> : Let me get this straight...<br/><br/>Diverting 70K barrels a day will effect a change in the price of oil but pumping a million barrels a day out of ANWR or off the Florida coast will not?</i></div>Gotta love it, no?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[cheeselog1234 @ 5/13/2008 6:53:03 PM]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/61701/1/atom0_3.rss#q6" /><id>256742</id><summary><![CDATA[Hey!<br/><br/>The Saudis gotta eat too!]]></summary><issued>2008-05-13T18:53:03+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-13T18:53:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Hey!<br/><br/>The Saudis gotta eat too!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[hmtksteve @ 5/13/2008 5:55:58 PM]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/61701/1/atom0_3.rss#q5" /><id>256725</id><summary><![CDATA[Let me get this straight...<br/><br/>Diverting 70K barrels a day will effect a change in the price of oil but pumping a million barrels a day out of ANWR or off the Florida coast will not?]]></summary><issued>2008-05-13T17:55:58+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-13T17:55:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Let me get this straight...<br/><br/>Diverting 70K barrels a day will effect a change in the price of oil but pumping a million barrels a day out of ANWR or off the Florida coast will not?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Maven @ 5/13/2008 5:39:20 PM]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/61701/1/atom0_3.rss#q4" /><id>256720</id><summary><![CDATA[Worse, it's going to motivate people to drive the same or more.]]></summary><issued>2008-05-13T17:39:20+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-13T17:39:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Worse, it's going to motivate people to drive the same or more.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[TraumaMamma @ 5/13/2008 5:33:16 PM]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/61701/1/atom0_3.rss#q3" /><id>256717</id><summary><![CDATA[It's only 70,000 barrels a day. What is the point? A drop in the proverbial oil bucket. It ain't gonna lower much!]]></summary><issued>2008-05-13T17:33:16+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-13T17:33:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It's only 70,000 barrels a day. What is the point? A drop in the proverbial oil bucket. It ain't gonna lower much!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[coldbladed @ 5/13/2008 5:25:07 PM]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/61701/1/atom0_3.rss#q2" /><id>256713</id><summary><![CDATA[Use those shipments to subsidize oil used to heat homes in middle to lower income neighborhoods instead. Then you might have a government program that really does some good.<br/><br/>On second though, nah, someone would figure out a way to dip into that ho...]]></summary><issued>2008-05-13T17:25:07+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-13T17:25:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Use those shipments to subsidize oil used to heat homes in middle to lower income neighborhoods instead. Then you might have a government program that really does some good.<br/><br/>On second though, nah, someone would figure out a way to dip into that honey pot and screw people over.]]></content></entry></feed>