There is nothing in the bill to insure that the oil recovered in the ANWR will be sold only on the U.S. markets! The oil companies will sell said oil on the international oil market to maximize their profits as demanded by their shareholders.
It is estimated by U.S. government energy dept. agencies that it will be ten years until any oil from the refuge will be available on any market.
Your solution then is to roll over?
I'm not wired that way, I prefer to join the battle.
Patton would have made an example of a coward like you.
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Better get started then.
The sentate just passed a bill sponsored by Wyden that requires the oil from ANWR to be sold in US markets.
But the Senate adopted an amendment offered by James M. Talent (R-Mo.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) that bans exports of any oil produced in ANWR by a vote of 83-16.
http://ogj.pennnet.com/articles/article_display.cfm?Section=ONART&C=GenIn&ARTICLE_ID=240660&p=7
"It is estimated by U.S. government energy dept. agencies that it will be ten years until any oil from the refuge will be available on any market."
Yes, and it was proposed over 10 years ago and the oil could have been flowing this very day.
Moreover, to start drilling would have a psychological impact on OPEC - in a positive way for us.
So what if it takes 10 years before we get our first oil from ANWR. If Clinton hadn't vetoed this measure in 1995, we would have oil flowing from ANWR today -- more than 1 million barrels per day, ENOUGH to cover what we lost during Katrina.
You are wrong on the issue of where the oil will go. "The oil won't necessarily go to the U.S." story is an old yarn. Some people used to claim the North Slope oil went to Japan. That was bunk. About 90-95 percent of the North Slope oil went to the U.S. and I assume you didn't hear about the amendment added to the ANWR legislation not to sell the oil abroad.