Baghdad Zog says, " My paid for shill er poll, shows that no one wants us to drill in Alaska. Drilling in Alaska will hurt my Opecker Prince and Thug buddies!"
Posted on 12/23/2004 7:50:56 PM PST by MissouriConservative
Wait till they get their heat bills. It's going to be -15 F degrees tonight in MSP.
This is stupid, I want to know the following, what do ALASKANS want?
If this is true, then the first thing we should do is drill ANWAR.
I'd be willing to bet a paycheck that another poll would show that a majority of Americans don't have a clue about what or where ANWR is. Bottom line is polls produce the desired results of those who pay for them.
An example of the validity of polls: Several years ago, IBM decided they needed to get 'ahead of the crowd' as an 'open systems' company. They had no product but conducted a worldwide multi-millions ad campaign - at the end of the campaign they did a poll - in all geographies IBM was identified as the world leader in Open Systems solutions - despite the fact they had no, none, zero, nada - products that they actually SOLD as Open Systems solutions. IBM executives actually used this as an example of their effective advertising campaign. Polls are simply a way to create a perception and have virtually no relation to reality.
LoL.....
And... most people do not understand how long it takes to find, poke a hole in the ground, build reineries and ship to the end user.
It's about seven years.
And for the doubting Thomases, we DO need more refining capacity. We're tapped out on throughput. If anyone doubts my statements, I will let my wife address this/these issues. She worked for Texaco oil and refining for 30+ years in Texaco's World Headquarters until Chevron bought Texaco 3 years ago. She was in staff meetings with Hicks,Bijour, and DeCrane; and wrote part of the Annual Report for Texaco's TIMM (Texaco International Manufacturing and Marketing.)
Bottom line... even if we get Congressional approval in developing, it will take YEARS to bing production from upstream to downstream.
And we will wait 5-7 years for results. Read my previous response.
So if they still oppose ANWR drilling then I suppose they LOVE gasoline at > $2.50 gallon then too eh?
IDIOTS.
They should talk to Alaskans. The drilling foot print itself is miniscule compare to the territory--virtually microscopic compared to the territory. The well-head(s) left after all is done and cleaned up would be even more microscopic.
The benefit to the country is awesomely greater than the risk or even the damage resulting.
There needs to be a massive education effort, it seems to me.
But mostly, Americans swallow too much poopoo from the MSM about everything and especially hyper environmental idiocies.
WEre they given any truthful information about the effects of the drilling, or were they just hit with a question that evoked an emotional response?
Please put a disclaimer about Zogby polling as piece of crap. Republicans gave him the finger in 1996. Now Dems probably did the same thing in 2004.
I agree with the crticis, NOT!!!!!
I was an inspector on the DEW Line in 69-70. I traveled from Point Barrow to Kulusuk Greenland. I was in ANWAR in April of 69 and saw the migration when the caribou herds come down from the Brooks Range where they winter. They flow out onto the coastal plain to graze in these sumer meadows.
The herd numbered around 50,000 and I watched it for several days. It was a virtual river of animals. The wolf packs followed the herds and cut out the aged and youngsters who strayed from Mom's side.
Today, because of the Alaska Pipeline which carries the hot oil, (geothermals below the oil field), to Valdez the herds now number over 120,000. So much for the doofae who have probably never been there but they just "KNOW HOW INJURIOUS MANKIND IS TO THE ENVIRONMENT!" Kinda like Kerry and Edwards!
Not just that, an arab lefty pollster...
An Arab lefty pollster polling a petroleum-related issue for enviro-wackos.
Yo, Zoggy. Of that 55%, what percentage knew what or where the hell ANWR is?
Baghdad Zog says, " My paid for shill er poll, shows that no one wants us to drill in Alaska. Drilling in Alaska will hurt my Opecker Prince and Thug buddies!"
Actually oil can come from any vareity of sources - mostly plants. We could also grow it in infinitely renewable supplies. ANWR should only be part of a drive to achieve energy independence through renewables. Otherwise we are just wasting a precious reserve that we might need as global supplies dwindle in the not too distant future.
Energy secrutiy is directly related to national security and should not be in the hands of oil companies, nor the context of a partisan squabble.
Please raise your hand if you want to pay three bucks a gallon for gas?
If it means energy independence fromthe rest of the world and improved American security, a halt to a transfer of wealth to Arab Sheiks and the beginning of a transition away from a fuel source we know will run out anyway, you have my vote.
If you pay one third more, you can just use one third less and come out even.
Very few people need vehicles as large as they have. Moreover, technology being employed by the Japanese and Germans is now signficantly increasing fuel efficiency.
The rise of China will guarentee 3 dollar a gallon gasoline anyway. The question is whether 1 dollar of that gallon goes to the Saudis, or into the American treasury focused on increasing American self-reliance.
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