[Isara]

Since the price of gasoline is so high, maybe it's time to promote the drilling again.

[Dutch Boy]

I would be a good idea to increase our refining capacity along with more drilling.

[Starve The Beast]

The opposition to drilling in ANWR isn't about the environment. It's become a symbol for the Left, a touchstone for opposing conservatives and this administration. It's literally a no-brainer.

[mvpel]

Adjusted for inflation, the price of gasoline is not much higher than it was in 1970. Why not buy someone else's non-renewable resource while it's relatively inexpensive, and save ours for later?

The price increase during a time of war and market uncertainty is to be expected. No reason to stampede the nation into depleting a reserve until we really, really need it.

[federal]

[Consider that Alaska's land mass exceeds 366 million acres and it turns out that ANWR's relation to the rest of the state would be roughly equal to that of a postage stamp sitting in a space a little larger than a quarter of a basketball court.]


The Democrats want this country to be held hostage by the middle east it's as simple as that. If ANWR is developed the USAs known oil reserves are increased 25% that won't find it's way into main stream press either.

[snooker]

Climate change ......

wastelands ==>> pristine coastal plains
swamps ==>> wetlands
jungles ==>> rain forests

But a wasteland is still a wasteland, a swamp is still a swamp, and a jungle is still a jungle.

As Roy Horn found out a tiger is still a tiger.

What man messes up a single comet can put it all back.

[SunkenCiv]

they look at the predicted decline in domestic oil production and can say that ANWR will replace only what will be lost.

Because, as we all know, the energy shortage is going to improve with age. IOW, greenies are stupid or liars. If the ANWR doesn't get drilled now, there won't BE any way to make up the shortfall. Known US reserves now in production will (at current rates) be gone in ten years.

Here's some things from a year ago. The headline is 95 per cent spin (Carl Levin, arch-D from Michigan, supported drilling the ANWR in his public statements at that time):

Moderate Republicans Try to Block ANWR Bill
by John Heilprin
February 11, 2003

"It would seriously undermine the legislative process to add new provisions behind closed doors and at the very last minute to a must-pass spending bill that is already four months late," the eight GOP lawmakers said in a letter to House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bill Young, R-Fla... The Senate Republicans, led by their appropriations committee chairman, Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, succeeded Monday night in protecting provisions that would open more areas in Alaska and national forests throughout the West to new logging... Stevens also is pushing for language in the bill to provide money for "pre-drilling" in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve... Opening ANWR to drilling for oil and natural gas is the centerpiece of President Bush's energy policy... The letter was signed by House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert of New York, Reps. Mike Castle of Delaware, Christopher Shays of Connecticut, Jim Leach of Iowa, Nancy Johnson of Connecticut, Wayne Gilchrest of Maryland, Chris Smith of New Jersey and Sue Kelly of New York.

Kerry Blasts Bush Environmental Policies
Reuters
February 11, 2003

Kerry said in a speech at the John F. Kennedy presidential library in Boston that the United States must reduce its dependence on foreign oil so it cannot be held hostage by leaders like President Saddam Hussein of Iraq... Kerry, one of six declared Democratic candidates who plan to seek their party's nomination to challenge Bush in the 2004 presidential election, said the United States cannot drill its way to self-sufficiency along the lines favored by Bush in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Instead, he urged development of technology to make homes, businesses, and transportation more efficient while creating a national market for biofuels from crops, wood, and waste.

No problem. All we have to do is reduce our oil imports by fifty eight per cent. We went after Saddam Hussein because the US was attacked on 9/11/01 by a terror network which relied in part on Saddam Hussein. Kerry's an [characterization deleted] for trying to spin it otherwise, as are any others who try. The US needs to keep it a long term goal to get rid of all despotates (unfriendlies first of course) and transition the entire world into democracy. Europe can sit on the sidelines (which historically, it generally has done, when it wasn't trying to grab all the real estate it could during the period when Malthusianism ruled gov't actions).

[Fiddlstix]

[Carry_Okie]

It amazes me that IBD can't (or won't) state the obvious:

The reason environmentalists have the power to stop ANWR is the contributions they get from the tax-exempt, "charitable" foundations of the owners of oil companies.

They LOVE high energy prices.

[hermgem]

Let's see: During the last two years we let 11 million acres of forest with good wood go up in flames due to a failed forest management policy. Clearing out forests of deadwood, thinning, road accessibility, and yes so called clear cutting which provides what use to be called meadows and at the same time served as fire barriers were taboos.
Anwar, a desolate area, cold in season to minus 50 degrees and dark, is presented as a nature zone. Vehicle tracks were supposed to remain in the tundra, oil pipelines were supposed to be barriers preventing caribou from migrating and thereby diminishing caribou herds were illustrated as examples of a dire need to prevent oil drilling.
Economic waste in forests belonging to all people and not solely owned by interest groups, securing maximum oil and gas supplies in an ecological acceptable manner are means to reduce dependence on foreigners. Strengthening of our currency, creation of jobs far beyond those that are directly engaged in building, constructing, and maintainig exploration and supplies within the USA.
We urgently need to frame and present this debate to all the people, have them vote on these issues directly affecting their wallets and livelyhoods, and let the total of poeple and not just narrow interest groups define what is good for eveybody.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
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[JasonC]

Nowhere else on earth do people agonize and debate over whether develop a continuous stream of fresh income of $10 billion a year. This is just absurd. Of course we should develop ANWR.