[Clara Lou]

And btw the reserves in Alaska are not poor quality, and Chevron is introducing a new process for refining high su;phur oil which if proven efficient promises to vastly increas our capacity to refine that stuff into gas and other refined products we need.
So, you're saying that Alaskan oil needs special treatment because of the high sulfur content (which makes it low quality), and Chevron's process is, as yet, unproven.

[milwguy]

Actually the ‘quality’ of the oil is significantly better than the ‘sour’ oil we currently buy from Venezuela, which we refine here in the US. The technolgy already exists to refine such oil, the Chevron process is just better in terms of producing higher quantities of the things we use, such as gasoline. North Korea for ezample uses heavy crude for their country, which is less refined and thus less efficient.