Bush pushes ANWR drilling

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner ^ | Thursday, May 04, 2006 | SAM BISHOP

[thackney]

It is long past time for Congress to open the Coastal Plain of ANWR. The US should be allowed to develop its resouces.

[trubluolyguy]

Bush pushes ANWR drilling

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Boy, Senate Majority Leader Reid isn't going to like this.

[SlowBoat407]

ANWR would look great in pumps.

[NYC Republican]

Bush doesn't have the political capital to get this through. Not with approval ratings in the mid-thirties... How idiotic of him and Cheney to let the Dem lies stick...

They should have known that sooner or later, unchallenged lies become reality in people's minds...

[thackney]

ANWR would look great in pumps.

LOL!!!

[Dansong]

Bush can't lose on this but still he peddles it softly; Why not stuff this issue in the face of the libs? 99% of Americans wants this...Why not drive the dems crazy by doing a joint press conference with some union leaders saying you want to create union (drilling) jobs, etc?

[socialismisinsidious]

"The US should be allowed to develop its resouces."

and lesson our dependence on our enemies. Why would we want to be held by the short hairs by someone like Chavez or by any other country (friend or foe)?

[Ann Archy]

About Fricking damn time!!!

[Mr. Mojo]

The Dems are pushing twice as hard against it, all while maintaining that the Bush admin is doing nothing about our dependence on foreign oil.

[kinghorse]

The trick is developing competion and some sort of subsidy for the weak but essential competitor. We need the picture of trucks backed up at the entrance to refineries to get the idea across it's a capacity and production issue, not an inventory issue. And the only way to increase capacity is to show the bottleneck on TV.

Auction leases to independent drillers every day the price stays above the "peg". Set the peg and encourage the speculators to bid their futures down to the peg by selling prime 99 year leases. It would take a third party to get this kind of competition in place. The two parties today are locked up.

[thackney]

I never understood the claim that a million barrels a day would not make a difference in price. That is fairly typical of the size of change OPEC makes to affect price. Sometimes more, but sometimes less.

http://www.opec.org/home/quotas/productionLevels.pdf

It is true OPEC could just cut back by a million barrels. But if we collect royalties and taxes on a million more barrels per day, and they collect less, it still sounds like a good plan.

[thackney]

[Mr. Mojo]

'bout sums it up...

[Chena]

It is long past time for Congress to open the Coastal Plain of ANWR. The US should be allowed to develop its resouces.

I agree. bttt

[b4its2late]

Exactly.

[thackney]

Auction leases to independent drillers

We have smaller "independent" oil companies buying leases on the North Slope in Alaska. Kerr-McGee and Pioneer have recently gotten into the North Slope oil business. We need to open up the rest of NPRA and ANWR's coastal plain and we will have more of them. There is no need to artificially "set the peg". The can and do compete on the market today, what little is available.

[Dansong]

Fantasy Idea: Bush announces an Executive Order to immediately start drilling in Alaska and off the Gulf citing reasons of National Security. Official Government Bids due in 120 days. Watch the dems squirm...

[Blackirish]

Yesterday the dims voted down easing restrictions expanding refineries. Why don't W and the Repubs beat them senseless with this vote?

[Mr. Mojo]

Like it. If the Donks resisted they'd all but destroy their chances in the midterms. The GOP should show some spine and brains (assuming they have any) and do it.

[The South Texan]

"They should have known that sooner or later, unchallenged lies become reality in people's minds..."

Unfortunately the White House doesn't have the brightest PR people (Rove included). Hopefully Tony Snow can reverse that, but I am not even sure he can.