Actually, it doesn't make any difference if Alaskan crude goes to Japan. The world oil market is just that and it's the availability of crude supply to overall world demand that sets the price.
I can't find any evidence, though, that more than four tankers a week carry Alaskan crude to asia, less than 10% of Alaskan production.
I'm corrected on that, thanks. My point, though, is that I see the greatest advance in opening ANWR in the slap at the enviros as much as anything else.
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"Can't nevur did anything!" I'm sure she wuz tawlkin 'bout that there Cantwell womun!!!