[Puppage]

ANWR is not so significant beyond keeping the State of Alaska's budget afloat a couple more years

WHAT? Who says that? All I keep hearing is that ANWR is the 3rd largest (according to most reputable sources) petroleum find in the history of America, with enough oil to keep drilling for 30+ years.

[RightWhale]

Sure, but that doesn't mean it can supply more than a percent or so during those 30 years. Even Prudhoe Bay is only 17% of our oil. None of these are in the same league with Saudi and Iraq.

[Army Air Corps]

We can also convert coal into petroleum...

In the 1930s a chemist developed a method of converting plant matter into coal and crude oil through a process of heat and pressure. His experiments were featured in Life magazine in the late 1930s. If they could do that with the primative technology of the time, we can certainly do better.

[Sybeck1]

So it 3%!! It's our 3% though, Jean Cherie'!

[Army Air Corps]

During the course of doing research on the US Navy's conversion from coal to oil, I came across a memo from the then Secretary of the Navy. This memo, from the early 1900s, stated that experts predicted that with the level of the Navy's activities, that domestic oil supplies would be completely exhuasted in 20 years. Hmmm, the oil that we used in WWII must have appeared by magic. The fact is, we find new reserves of energy nearly every year and our ability to access it improves.