 looking out for 1 obama has released 30 million barrels of oil from the strategic reserve the reserve was designed in the 1970s to hold vast amounts of oil in case of national emergency and to obama we are facing a national emergency his poll numbers are down we are taking this action in response to you idiots who don t consider the president an allpowerful allwise allloving demigod energy secretary steven chu said thursday all our attacks on the american economy are for your own good ok not really we are taking this action in response to the ongoing loss of crude oil due to supply disruptions in libya and other countries and their impact on the global economic recovery energy secretary steven chu said thursday but doesn t the first version sound much more honest  