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FacebookLetter to the editor:
ANWR drilling only delays the inevitable
Thu, Aug 7, 2008 (2:01 a.m.)
This is in reply to Pete Karnoski’s Sunday letter to the editor and his comment about how drilling for oil in our waters and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would eventually drop oil prices.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s own estimate, that won’t happen until 2017, and even then it would not have a significant impact on oil prices because of ever-increasing demand.
Second, unless Congress enacts a law prohibiting U.S. oil companies from selling oil recovered from those pristine areas on the world market, thus getting top price, the chance Americans will benefit from lower prices at the pump will be further reduced.
It seems more logical for American oil companies to pump the same amount of money into alternative energy as it would take to expand drilling for oil in protected areas, which would very likely be even more expensive in the future, and would be like taking one step forward and two steps back.
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ANWR drilling only transitions to the inevitable full use of the alternative hydrogen fuel cell power economy.
If you actually read the report on ANWR, you'll see that it says it "predicts" there is oil in ANWR. The prediction is predicated on similar geology in Canada which DOES have oil.
At best, they say ANWR will reduce the price at the pump by a penny in 2026, when they can fully take advantage of extraction IF THERE IS EVEN OIL THERE!
So irresponsible to trash a natural treasure for a penny per gallon. You can get much better than that just by ensuring your tires are inflated! Or roll up your windows when you drive!
Think of the jobs and the dollars that would stay in America instead of Venezula or the middle east.
That helps America and the dollar.
contact harry and make him take the Senate to up or down votes on Drilling, Nuclear, Oil Shale, and Coal.
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Wow...ANWR will only affect pricings by a penny.
I think Obama would disagree.
He says that by adding less than 500,000 barrels a day that gas prices can come down by 20%.
Obama is very very very smart. He never says anything ever ever ever wrong.
Surely, ANWR can pump out more than 500,000 barrels a day.
I guess the oil from ANWR is different than the oil that is in the national reserve.
The oil in the national reserve is magic oil.
"He says that by adding less than 500,000 barrels a day that gas prices can come down by 20%."
You still haven't proven this. You still haven't quoted Obama saying this. I mean, YOU'VE said this, but you haven't proven Barack Obama has said this.
Maybe you don't understand how demand will grow between now and when ANWR would finally be pumping. ANWR can't pump now. Even if the lease was signed today, we'd be looking at several years before the oil was on the market. The drop in gas price by a penny or two is a projection that isn't based on TODAY'S demand, their based on demand in 20 years from now.
Why don't you understand this? It's not that hard to grasp. Unless you don't think demand will grow? Bzzzt. Wrong!
You keep running away when I ask you to quote Barack Obama. Prove your point, otherwise people will never take you seriously.
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Yes, isn't it strange that they all hang around the same articles and such?
It's a right-wing echo chamber!
Unfortunately, they can breed and are allowed to vote.Can we say shallow gene pool?
Nancy adjourns the House and goes on a national book promotion tour,(the view, good morning America, etc) and sell less than 3000 books. Harry adjourns the Senate and goes on a taxpayer funded junket to asia. Now Obama is headed to Hawaii for some R&R. The rest of us just keep working if we haven't been laid off and paying at the pump. It should make us mad