Republicans trying to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling said on March 15, 2005 they had the votes to win U.S. Senate approval of the controversial plan. The Senate was set to vote on Wednesday on an amendment from Democrats to strike the drilling language from budget legislation. The ANWR drilling provision was put into the budget resolution because it estimates the federal government could raise more than $5 billion from companies that would lease ANWR tracts to search for oil. Alaska would get half the money. (Reuters Graphic)
See, Reuters is helping it’s readers see just how large an area the Republicans will despoil to satisfy their greedy lust for oil.
Non-Reuters readers might know that the area in which drilling operations would be conducted comprise a total of 2,000 of the area's 1.5 million acres, which encompasses 0.08 percent of the total area of the refuge.
It wouldn't entirely fill a pixel in the picture above.