Cheese Reserve
In which Cousin calls for action
Good time of day, humans!
Transcript:
Cousin: — We need to replenish our Strategic Cheese Reserve.
Cousin: — Perhaps we should talk to Human about this.
Rat: — The reserve works best if you don’t talk about it to anyone.
That’s the trouble with all sorts of government reserves — they can’t conduct their business quietly enough.
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It would take an act of Congress to appropriate more money for the Energy Department’s petroleum account.
Of course, the moment such act is passed, oil traders will start frontrunning the US government and push crude prices sharply higher […]
It will take a lot of drilling to accomplish the promise to bring down the energy costs and replenish the reserve at the same time.
To replenish the Cheese Reserve, you'll have to "Milk, baby, milk!" (But then the cows "Fart, baby, fart!")
The president could scale back on a few oil-related things—like extravagant, crackpot militarism and self-defeating sanctions . Of course that's a clear non-starter in Washington, but it *would* be helpful. It might even soothe cheese markets, and thus benefit Rat and Cousin.