You think ANWR is dead? Well think again, people. (Senate Vote Tonight)

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[Pukin Dog]

Under the radar screen, the Senate has marked up the 07 budget to include ANRW drilling. There is a vote tonight in the Senate starting around 5pm eastern time on a measure by Maria Cantwell to remove ANRW from the budget. This time it should pass in the Senate before moving on to the House.

All you folks who thought the matter was dead were not paying attention. ANWR is alive and well, and starting tonight, we are one step closer to soaking those Caribou in crude oil. (that is a joke for the humorless among us)

Drill, baby. DRILL!!

[Marine_Uncle]

And as usual we do not have enough political leaders willing to force this points on the American pyschic. Twenty some years back for instance, I had gone along with the idea the US long term plan was to simply bleed the rest of the world from their oil, then have lots for ourselves. I no longer hold to that mentality. I see nothing wrong with revitalizing our oil industry to use our resources and at least become close to oil independant. And surely we must remove the stigma from going all out in the nuclear energy sector. Damn lot of oil could be saved right their. So many options we could go into that make perfect sense should the enviromental whackos be silenced and a new breed of politicians come forth. Yea I know, don't hold my breath.

[RightWhale]

I see thirty years wasted following the Arab oil embargo. The major action was to set a speed limit and drive muscle cars off the market. Nuke plants? Forget it. Public transportation? Forget it. So here we are at something just a few days short of crisis all the time. We have a public system that won't fix the problem and won't allow the private sector to fix it either--worst of both worlds.

[Marine_Uncle]

And we have both demos and republicans to blame. Both the hill and all the POTUS's. Our energy needs are a natinal defense and security issue. And they as you are very well aware, have totally failed us.

[RightWhale]

Yup. We are headed off the cliff at full speed. It didn't have to be this way. I wouldn't blame the politicians, though. We elected them.

[Marine_Uncle]

"We elected them."
We elect them to do what is best for America. Only a very small percentage of Americans research anything. They must depend on those elected to work in a bi-partisan way, on issues regarding our national well being. But as in many things, one can see where things of real importance are not always self apparent. But like you mentioned. After the oil embargo, things should have changed. But alas, things settled down, cheap Arabian crude and Canadian and elsewhere sources where to tempting. Now we pay the price. The blame sure can be placed on many, not only the politicians, as we well know. But they could have laid down the rules. Given car manufactures adequate notice for next generation vehicles. And the list gets large as what should have been planned for. We are not a static model. Our energy needs continue to grow. They did no realistic planning.

[thackney]

10 billion was a rather top end figure based on the many factors involved

No, a little over 10 billion is the mean amount. The top end is 16 billion barrels recovereable.

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1002 Area, Petroleum Assessment, 1998, Including Economic Analysis, see page 4

[Marine_Uncle]

Thanks.

[hosepipe]

A nice crude oil spray would keep the skeeters off the caribou ..
Skeeters and flys drive the caribou nutz..

[festus]

Maybe we should change that to :

Grill The Caribou Drill Alaska

That way we could end hunger and end dependance on foreign oil with the same program !!!

[F.J. Mitchell]

BUMP!

[festus]

I'm scared of things that go bump in the night.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

[F.J. Mitchell]

LOL! I'm sorry. Let me re-phrase that: BTTT!

[Scarchin]

Does anyone know the status of this? I can't find it and no TV at work.

[thackney]

Senate passes budget with ANWR drilling
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7537792p-7449459c.html

By LIZ RUSKIN
Anchorage Daily News
Published: March 16, 2006
Last Modified: March 16, 2006 at 04:23 PM AKST

The Senate narrowly approved a budget resolution Thursday that could lead to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Resolution, but it is only a first step in Congress' complex budget procedure and resolution of the decades-old controversy is far from certain.


The vote Thursday evening was 51-49. It came without the emotional debate that has come to characterize the fight over the coastal plain in Alaska's far northeast. An expected Democratic amendment to strip ANWR from the bill never materialized. It wasn't for lack of interest. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., who led the anti-drilling battle last year, decided to try another tactic this time

"What it came down to was an overall assessment today that if we offered the amendment we would have lost again and that we should try to get the overall bill killed," Cantwell's spokeswoman, Charla Neuman, said.

Drilling advocates, as they did last year, are trying to pass ANWR as a budget item because budget bills can't be filibustered. It takes 60 votes to break a filibuster.

The resolution doesn't actually mention the refuge, but it directs the Senate Energy Committee to change whatever resource-related laws must be changed to raise $3 billion -- that's congressional code for ANWR lease-sale revenues. Congress would have to pass another bill, called the budget reconciliation bill, to actually open the refuge.

[Sister_T]

"Last year, the drilling boosters tried every dirty trick and every back-door maneuver in the book, but they were stopped by the American people and bipartisan leadership in Congress at every turn," said Bill Meadows, president of The Wilderness Society, in a news release. "With this blatant abuse of power, Sen. Stevens and his allies are throwing aside every pretense of good government."

I really wish leftists would stop invoking "the American people" when they don't give a hoot about us. The only reason ANWR gets stopped is because of gutless politicians who believe the nonsense from these enviro-wackos who want to keep us imprisoned to foreign oil interests.

I don't care about no stinkin' caribou! Drill in ANWR!!

[thackney]

The only reason ANWR gets stopped is because of gutless politicians who believe the nonsense from these enviro-wackos

I doubt they even believe. It only continues to get stopped because it is a VERY effective fund raising topic.

[SunnyD1182]

ANWR isn't dead. But that's only because it was never alive to begin with.

We're not going to see ANWR drilling in our lifetimes. At least, not until Republicans in this Congress decide to get their act together. And that, of course, will not happen in our lifetimes either.

[HonestConservative]

You think actual Americans will be permitted to do the work?

Naaaahhhhhhh.......