Posted on 03/16/2005 7:50:57 AM PST by Petronski
(CNSNews.com) - Environmental activists say Republicans are making a sneaky, "backdoor" attempt to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- and it just might work.
Instead of crafting another ANWR drilling bill or amendment, Senate Republicans have included an ANWR provision in the budget resolution, and they believe they have enough votes to get it passed as is.
Don't let it happen, 14 environmental groups said in a joint press release.
The possibility that some type of oil drilling language may finally emerge from the Senate has oil-drilling critics very worried and oil-drilling supporters more hopeful than they've been for a long time.
The possibility that some type of oil drilling language may finally emerge from the Senate has oil-drilling critics very worried and oil-drilling supporters more hopeful than they've been for a long time.
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) has introduced an amendment that would strip the ANWR language out of the budget resolution, and environmentalists are lobbying for passage of the Cantwell amendment. A vote could come as soon as today.
But environmental groups not only oppose Arctic oil drilling; they also oppose the way Republicans are going about it.
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So, if what you say is true... why would anyone want to invest the capital to do it in the first place?
"Even if it passes in the Senate, these radical communists and socialists will file more law suits than a computer can handle and it will be tied up in litigation for decades. '
Problem for them is they won't be able to find friendly juristictions this time.
great site here, USGS analysis of the area
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1002 Area, Petroleum Assessment, 1998, Including Economic Analysis
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-0028-01/fs-0028-01.htm
Oil is over $56/bbl, we are almost hopelessly dependent on foreign oil, the balance of payments deficit is bleeding barrels of red ink and the Dollar is tanking.
Keeping this oil locked up and unuseable will hasten the economic destruction of the USA and level us with the rest of the world, so it is in their interests.
You are not correct in the refining capabilities. Alaskan Oil price is based upon the West Coast Markets, where the majority of it is sold.
You could learn a lot about US and World refining capabilites at:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_publications/oil_market_basics/Refining_text.htm#U.S.%20Refining%20Capacity
ANWR: Another National (oil) Well Reservoir.
I wonder how often Congress puts specific items in budget resolutions to get them past a filibuster that would happen, were said item considered alone. Is this really a first-time thing, as environmental groups claim, or just a part of doing business in the Senate?
About time! When the demand goes up and the supply stays the same, or the demand stays the same and the supply goes down, does the price go up or down?
PING!
This photo, released by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, shows the coastal plain within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska. The US Senate narrowly approved opening ANWR to energy exploration.(AFP/HO-FWS/File)
$56+ per barrel oil and gasoline prices heading to $2.50+ a gallon, with no peak in sight for either, are very persuasive arguments for drilling and against the luxury of tree hugging.
However gutless and spineless and good for nothing Senators are, they do pay attention when voters' common sense raises its head.
Right on...the day we start drilling, that day gas prices will go down.
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