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To: Joe NYC who wrote (224787)	3/18/2005 9:35:59 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572371

"Does everything have to be part of a political baseball" The present administration shows that it is. If that is reality, if you don't play, you can't win. "If the oil is there, and the economy needs oil to run" But that is the heart of the problem. There is oil and then there is oil. Very few American refineries can use the type of oil that is in ANWR. In fact, there is a relative glut of heavy, sour crude, such that it is $18 or more a barrel cheaper than the light, sweet crude that US refineries use. So drilling ANWR does nothing to address the economic needs of the US. "It seems that the party you are envisioning would break up the coalition that is holding the blue majorities in the remaining blue states." Sure. It would be a major change in the way business is done in the US. That wouldn't be a bad thing, long term. The Republican party was born in a populist movement in the US. They quickly distanced themselves from those roots, however...