	congressman says u s unprepared for oil cutoff rep mike synar said today that while president reagan is ready to use military force to protect kuwait tankers in the gulf the united states is ill prepared at home to deal with a new energy crisis synar democrat of oklahoma made his remarks in comments on a study by the general accounting office gao on the u s participation in the test of the emergency oil sharing program of the international energy agency the iea an alliance of oil consuming countries was formed after the arab oil embargo to find ways to deal with any future oil cutoff synar said the president is prepared to take military action to protect kuwaiti oil tankers but has been unwilling to take less dangerous equally important action to prepare our nation for the next energy crisis reagan said the u s military would protect kuwaiti oilers to assure the west of a continuing supply of middle east oil increasingly being threatened by the iranian iraqi war synar who asked for the gao report after criticism of u s action in a previous iea test said the united states successfully advocated a test limited to training participants in oil sharing procedures and the system s mechanical aspects reuter 
