Gas pains

By GottaLaff

Oil you need is love:

The Senate on Tuesday voted with overwhelming support to stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in order to reduce the cost of gasoline.

Oh, that Senate! They must have forgotten how much more money Big Oil still craves. See? This is why we need more oversight. Big Oil's profits are sure to shrink to a measly 7490179%! There goes the economy.

“Democrats today led the charge against one of the root causes of skyrocketing oil and gas prices,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) following the vote. “Instead of hiding barrels of oil in the nearly full Strategic Petroleum Reserve, we want to put them on the market to increase supply and lower prices.” [...]

“Republicans must abandon their shortsighted strategy of ‘drill, drill, drill’ and join us to pass the rest of the Democratic energy bill that puts consumers first, forces Big Oil to pay its fair share and invests in renewable energy,” Reid said.

Republicans also hailed the vote.

But -- and there's always a "but" -- guess who voted, and ::dun dun dunnn:: guess who didn't:

Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama (Ill.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) rushed back to Washington to be part of the 97-1 vote. Only Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) opposed the measure. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and James Inhofe (R-Okla.) did not vote.

John Sidney McGasTax must be terrorist who wears an oil-barrel lapel pin.