Note actual size of area to be affected by oil production.....
Posted on 11/12/2007 6:16:21 PM PST by Kaslin
Energy: Hillary Clinton wants to tap the U.S. petroleum stockpile to increase supply and lower the price. Brazil has found a better way — drill for more. And what about that strategic reserve her husband vetoed — ANWR?
As much as we welcome the senator's recognition that the law of supply and demand is not some right-wing fantasy, she ignores the fact that she and her party have worked mightily to restrict that supply. As for the oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, it didn't get there by magic. Somebody had to drill for it.
In 1995, co-President William Jefferson Clinton vetoed a budget bill containing language that would have opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil exploration.
"This budget," he warned, "would give oil companies the right to drill in the last unspoiled arctic wilderness in Alaska." Horrors! He also threatened to veto any bill containing similar language.
If President Clinton in 1995 hadn't blocked drilling in a few thousand acres of frozen tundra in an area the size of South Carolina, ANWR would today be delivering more than a million barrels of American oil daily.
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Simply put, its a setup. Elites like high energy prices, and like the control and fear it allows them to have over the population. We need coal and nukes, not alternative energy. And we need them now. Both are known technologies and have their problems - which we know how to mitigate.
>Mrs. Clinton urged the president “to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the Northwest Heating Oil Reserve to send a signal to the market
Even she is not so rock hard stupid as to think that would do anything.
What this bitch is going to do without Bush to attack will involve a major ongoing effort by the MSM, which I predict will be entirely ... successful.
How will she replace it?
They're strategic supplies, not convenient supplies. Bimbo.
Agreed, and she knows that Bush is aware of this. He has also repeatedly stated and shown that he is willing to let the market operate "on its own" and not intervene. She is exploiting this policy and the ignorance of the people to create anger against Bush and divert heat away from her after the NY license debacle at the last debate.
That's riiiight! We have a few lamebrains here too on FR that suggest fiddling with the strategic oil reserve.
High oil prices are great for the party opposing whoever is the POTUS. If he releases the oil, he is “irresponsible.” If he doesn’t, he likes high oil prices and wants the people to suffer.
“He has also repeatedly stated and shown that he is willing to let the market operate “on its own” and not intervene.”
If we let this happen, we will have $35 or $40 oil again, hopefully soon. Of course it may depend on how the radioactive fallout affects the Iranian oil fields.
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Posted on 11/12/2007 6:20:02 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924846/posts
“the last unspoiled arctic wilderness in Alaska.” “
You can tell they have never been there.
Place is littered for miles with rusty oil barrels, old DoD bases and so on.
Pristene my popo....
When are the general public going to wake up and discover that a Democratic and Rino congress stands between them and more domestic oil supply?
But, but, but ...
Hillary (er, the previous president Clinton) ALREADY released our strategic reserves into upstate NY, PA, and MA (voters) in 1998 and 1999 just before her coronation as Senator in those states.
Surely she knew these were strategic assets needed for grave national emergencies. Like her election.
It's not that I disbelieve you but I'd love to have a body of evidence to substantiate that.
Not to mention the multiple natural oil seeps that lead to the designation in the first place...
We ought to send some greenies up there to clean the birds that get into the seeps. That'll cure them.
Strategic means it is of military importance. Consumers are not part of that planning.
I have seen it in person. You can’t go anywhere without tripping over rusty cans and broken boards.
Do a google image searcg with
DEW line sites alaska
or
www.boingboing.net —
look for (derelict DEW line site alaska)
or
www.blaketrask.com
https:/.../Conservation/ColdWar/coldwar.html
arctic.fws.gov Search with DEW line sites.
and so on.
Plenty of googe images if you look for ‘em. You can also ask the folks who fly across ANWR regularly.
Hope this helps you on the journey to knowledge. Enjoy.
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