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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (8335)3/8/2005 10:59:33 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Drill in ANWR? Has Anyone Asked the Alaskans?

Blogs for Bush

The funny thing about the debate over drilling for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge is that over the course of the debate, the voice of the people of Alaska has rarely been heard. Fortunately, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner fills in some of the gaps in our knowledge:

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With Prudhoe Bay oil reserves in decline, it is essential that new areas be opened for oil exploration and development. Oil exploration in ANWR would take place on just 2,000 acres of its 1.5 million acre coastal plain, which amounts to a tiny fraction of Alaska's protected lands. The land is on the coastal plain, a tiny sliver of the huge wildlife refuge.

And it is an area specifically set aside by Congress for exploration and development. (emphases added)
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There is something really absurd, but typical of modern America, when the opponents of drilling in ANWR are lead by a bunch of rich urbanites in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York who have never been to ANWR - and never will go there, because most of it is frozen, howling wilderness. In the matter of drilling for oil in ANWR, I think we should defer to three things:

1. Law - which allows it.

2. Necessity - we need increased domestic energy supplies.

3. The wishes of the people of Alaska - they have again and again indicated their ardent desire for development of this resource.

Posted by Mark Noonan

blogsforbush.com
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