I’m not saying the potential from ANWR is trivial.
I’m saying the potential from ANWR is being abused into overblown rhetoric.
Yes, it would help.
For now, its value seems more symbolic for political purposes than actual for commercial purposes.
We have listened to these excuses for decades.
The Alaska Pipeline is presently at half capacity and could only move 500K to 1M BBL per day more from ANWR.
That’s not trivial, but neither is it “the solution”.
I agree entirely that ANWR has more of a symbolic value, which is really the shameless mendacity of the enviro-weenies versus the very pragmatic and factual concerns of most Americans, in this case the larger issue of domestic drilling.
As with global warming, it’s the struggle of lies against truth.
“For now, its value seems more symbolic for political purposes than actual for commercial purposes.”
But my point is there will be NO one solution, so we need ANWR and five or six more of similar potential output, or more likely dozens more smaller finds to come into productivity.
It is symbolic, but it’s also one of our two or three biggest known crude oil fields.