The decision to release 30 million barrels of oil from the US strategic oil reserves (and another 30 million from Germany, France, Spain and Japan) is not about Libya, nor is it about re-electing a President. It is about a global economy that has failed to respond to every other effort at resuscitation. See Desperate measures in oil markets as global economy fails to recover http://bit.ly/lKIb6j http://amplify.com/u/a15sc6