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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

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Capitol Hill Republicans yesterday begrudgingly broke with President Bush over oil policy, joining a lopsided vote to stop the government from filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, in hopes of slightly reducing sky-high gasoline prices.

Cognizant of massive Republican defections, Mr. Bush reportedly is rethinking his opposition to the plan, which Democrats pushed in an election-year effort to reduce prices at the pump.

Republican leaders attempted to recast the vote as a referendum on supply-side fixes to the country's energy woes, such as the party's proposal to curb dependence on foreign oil with more offshore oil rigs and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said the overwhelming support for the measure demonstrates that Democrats "led the charge against one of the root causes of skyrocketing oil and gas prices."

"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," Mr. Reid said. "It is a good first step, but with oil and gas prices continuing to break record highs every day, much more needs to be done."

Mr. Reid encouraged Republicans to abandon their "drill, drill, drill" energy plan, and to back the Democrats' proposals to end tax breaks for the oil industry and increase spending to develop renewable energy.

Senate Republican legislation for more domestic oil drilling died yesterday in a 56-42 procedural vote, falling 18 votes short of the 60 required to survive.

House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, voted for the measure. He said he did not think it would lower gasoline prices but reasoned that it would undermine Democrats' arguments against more domestic drilling.

"By them bringing this bill up, they admit that supply is a problem. They've done nothing to improve the supply. All they've done is block us for the last 13 years," he said of Democrats' long-standing opposition to expanded domestic oil exploration.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which was created in the aftermath of the 1973 oil embargo, is the world's largest stockpile of government-owned emergency crude oil.

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