Green Options » hurricane gustav http://greenoptions.com/tag/hurricane-gustav Posts tagged 'hurricane gustav' Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:42:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en U.S. to Resume Filling Strategic Petroleum Reserve http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/01/02/us-to-resume-filling-strategic-petroleum-reserve/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/01/02/us-to-resume-filling-strategic-petroleum-reserve/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:42:53 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/01/02/us-to-resume-filling-strategic-petroleum-reserve/ worker opens valve at strategic petroleum reserve

Last week sustainablog asked what your government was doing about peak oil. With all the layers of government to which I am subjected, I immediately thought to myself that there is no short answer. Now, at the very least, I have a partial answer:  My federal government is preparing for peak oil by topping off the tanks of the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve.

The U.S. Department of Energy today announced that it plans to take advantage of the recent decline in crude oil prices, and will purchase approximately 12 million barrels of crude oil for the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to replenish supplies sold following hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.

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