Talk:Strategic Petroleum Reserve

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[edit] Al Gore and the SPR

Somebody told me that the Stretegic Petroleum Reserve was deliberately opened up to both pay the deficit and increase popularity for then-Vice President Al Gore for the upcoming Presidential election, but from the facts it looks like it wasn't open for that long. Can someone explain this? --Tokachu 21:13, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Should the name of this article be changed

Since several countries either have or are creating their own SPR, should the name of this article be changed to reflect that this is referring to only the US SPR? And should another article be created to refer to all SPRs, not just the US one?Publicus 15:27, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

As new strategic petroleum reserves are created, we should leave this article as it is and have a disambiguation tag at the top that says this article refers to the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve. For other countries, see List of strategic petroleum reserves. Other countries could then be listed like strategic petroleum reserve of China etc. MPS 15:56, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Good solution MPS, can you add the tag you mentioned? I would but not sure how to do that. I have however created the article you suggested, global strategic petroleum reserves to cover all those other reserves not mentioned in this article.Publicus 17:55, 22 March 2006 (UTC)