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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).