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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: TimF who wrote (78980)8/18/2006 9:42:40 PM
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>>Our true supply problem is of our own doing. Large quantities of oil lie below the 20 million acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The amount of land proposed for oil drilling is less than 2,000 acres, less than one-half of one percent of ANWR. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates there are about 10 billion barrels of recoverable oil in ANWR. But environmentalists' hold on Congress has prevented us from drilling for it. They've also had success in restricting drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and off the shore of California. Another part of our energy problem has to do with refining capacity. Again, because of environmentalists' successful efforts, it's been 30 years since we've built a new oil refinery.<<

Tim -

I hope you don't buy this part of that post. (And yes, I do realize you are not the author.)

This is wrong on a number of levels. First, our current supply problems can't be solved by opening ANWR, since it would take around ten years to reach the point where the fields were actually producing oil. Also, given the best estimates of the amount of oil that could be produced from ANWR, it would be around five percent of what the U.S. consumes now.

And just saying that the area concerned is a small part of the total space of ANWR ignores the fact that this is the precise area where the caribou breed.

We've destroyed enough of the beautiful, wild places on this planet. It's time to start using our imaginations and our technical knowledge to develop sustainable energy sources for the future instead of trying to suck every last drop of petroleum out of the earth.

- Allen
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