I am far from being an expert on this, but I have been paying attention. From everything I have heard and read, if Bush would release some of the oil reserves, there would be an immediate drop in oil prices. He says he is holding the reserves for an emergency. With people losing their jobs, stock prices falling again, the transportation industry going down the crapper, including the trickle-down effect, workers just buying enough gas to get back and forth to their jobs - well if this isn't an emergency, I don't know what is!