re: U.S. Department of Energy to Release 1 Million Barrels of Gasoline from Reserves

As a nation we use 8 million barrels of gas a day. Let's say the northeast (where the reserves will be emptied) is responsible for 1 million of that.

He's basically selling an extra day's worth of gas cheap into the local supply. This won't put a golf ball dimple in prices at the pump.

But the tanks get stirred, the old gas gets cycled out and the propaganda machine feeds him another talking point to soften a blow that comes every summer.