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To: jbkelle who wrote (138675)	8/8/2001 10:57:11 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1576912

Drilling the ANWR for oil threatens US National Security by providing an additional single point failure mode that is vulnerable to begin with I certainly don't pretend to have any expertise about oil/gas transportation issues, but this statement is nonsense. Having additional supplies at our disposal certainly does not threaten national security. While it is possible a single point of failure could cause a problem, the same argument can be made for almost any supply of crude you care to mention. Having an additional supply of crude, even if poor quality, helps to eliminate the single point of failure risk for other supplies. The fact that you could have a single point of failure for ANWR oil hardly makes it less desirable. Which market-based solutions are you suggesting? I'm all for conservation (which doesn't solve the problem, but could contribute); I'm all for developing alternative sources (which, short of some dumb luck, will solve the problem only after supplies are tight enough that the price of gas at the pump skyrockets -- and I don't mean to $2, either); but other than these approaches, all you can do to minimize foreign dependence is to develop what you have.