THE HILL: Republicans go on offensive over rumors about tapping oil reserves. “Republicans launched a preemptive strike last week against rumored plans by the White House to tap the country’s emergency oil reserves. Releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a 696-million-barrel stockpile stored on the Gulf Coast, is a ploy to score political points amid gas prices that are nearing a national average of $4 per gallon, Republicans argued.”

It never makes much of a difference anyway.

UPDATE: A reader emails: ““Perhaps we should change the name to the ‘Tactical Petroleum Reserve’.”