Obama released 30 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR). This could be problematic at many different levels. To start with why was this discussed behind closed doors and not allowed to be in a public forum. The obvious answer is like Obamacare, it would be too much for the people to handle. But it appears that this decision was made a long time ago. Leno was quick to point out that it was an election year so that is why the oil was released.
