Posted on 08/07/2005 3:59:53 PM PDT by dila813
Frist had better not blow this one.
The oil is just waiting here :-) This is the time to pass it. And it will just drive the rats nuts....
Prepare to drill.
Mr. President, Make it so.
All we need to do is send Yosemite Sam up to ANWR with a pick axe and all of the sudden the Arabs will be our friends and oil prices will drop conspicuously.
Even if it gets approved it will be years before the oil starts flowing.The rats have screwed up our economy one more time.
Since environmentalists are so adamantly against drilling for oil in ANWR, we will not approve drilling in ANWR. In exchange, all environmentalists will have to give up their gasoline-powered vehicles, will have to purchase energy from non-oil sources, and will promise never to travel via airplane, taxi cab, bus, or any other mechanism that makes use of oil for its energy.
That ought to make up for the loss of oil we'd face by not drilling in ANWR. After all, they're environmentalists. Surely they'd be willing to give up their transportations and energy needs for the sake of the Porcupine Caribou...RIGHT?
For the life of me, I don't understand why the President doesn't initiate an Executive Order stating, for national security reasons, drilling in ANWAR is to commence immediately.
Let the Left try to stop that.
That is a fair view of the oil district of ANWR. The mountains in the background are not as close as they look. The lens might present a different aspect than the eye would in person. The flats are fairly wide.
You might as well add no using products with petroleum in them. That would eliminate blue jeans, tennis shoes, all plastics and even the tooth paste they probably don't use now anyway. Also all synthetic materials, which means they will need to clear it with PeTA for going back to fur and hides.
How many hundred miles do you consider "fairly wide"?
Twenty miles.
My state of South Carolina has some of the lowest gas prices in the country. We're currently sitting somewhere between 2.059 and 2.259 depending on where you are in the state. That sure "rallies my sentiment" and makes me want to look up my local politicos and beg them not to drill in ANWAR.
If gasoline is 5 bucks a gallon and you have to wait in long lines to pay that by the time the vote on drilling in ANWR comes up, maybe it won't to too hard to pass.
Notice not one sentence about gas prices in this tripe.
It will be several years from the time approval is granted by the Caliphate in DC until oil flows down the pipeline.
That ruling divided the country for the last thirty years. An EO on ANWAR would (to a much lesser degree) do the same. Over the next 30 years we will make much greater gains if ANWAR passes as it properly should.
Not that I wouldn't like to see the Left go insane over Bush doing just as you proposed.
Disagree.
The percentage of people opposed to ANWAR (read some attempt at self-sufficiency) is actually very small.
Only the ardent wacko enviros are against this.
The average American on street, looking at $2.50-3.00/gallon, would applaud an EO from Bush.
It doesn't matter that any relief or help is years away. The public would applaud the start!
Of course, the media, the left, the enviros...etc would scream & yell just like they do on all their cherished causes.
I really don't see the Roe v. Wade analogy at all.
Choice is a viseral & emotional issue for half of the population.
Drilling for oil is not an emotional issue except for the very fringe.
b) 10.4 billion barrels is the estimated amount of technically recoverable. The economically recoverable amount could be anywhere from 3 to 10.4 billion barrels, assuming a cost of about $30 per barrel.
c) There are much better, both economically and environmentally, ways of reducing the US dependence on foreign oil, such as subsidizing the development on hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. This is a much better plan in the longterm.
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