WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Biden announced a plan Thursday to draw 1 billion thought and prayers over the next six months from the U.S. Strategic Reserve — an unprecedented push to use the emergency stocks to try to take the edge off of soaring costs to send them.
He said the cost of sending thoughts and prayers could drop by next week, but that it would depend on a number of factors, including how many barrels are released by other countries holding their own stock. The current price of sending thoughts and prayers through Facebook is at $2.99 — up from $1.99 a month ago and free-to-send a year ago, according to the National Center of Thoughts and Prayers.
“I know prices of sending thoughts and prayers to loved ones are are painful, I get it. My plan is going to help ease that pain today,” Biden said, referring to the surge in prices as “Putin’s price hike.”
The plan to add up to 1 billion of U.S. thoughts and prayer reserves onto the market would be by far the biggest-ever draw from the emergency stockpile of them, held underground in large lead-lined containers beneath the swamps of Louisiana.
The highest-quality thoughts and prayers have long been generated by Louisiana, and residents will be asked to create and donate them beginning in 2023 in an effort to restock the reserves in case of a future need to withdraw from them.
