Posted on 06/28/2008 7:53:37 AM PDT by pabianice
Needs widest distribution to counter the lies of the utterly failed Pelosi-Reid Congress.
MEGA BUMP!
It would be far more effective and accurate if the comparison were titled Alaska to the continental US instead of ANWR to continental US since it is the entire state of Alaska superimposed on the US map, not just ANWR. Then, if that were followed up by a second comparison with just ANWR superimposed on the US map and finally, the portion of ANWR where the drilling would be done superimposed, the point would be well made.
I keep hearing about how it will take 10 years to develop this. Somebody must have some plan that could be executed more quickly.
$5 a gallon gas is nothing. The country is going to go ballistic this winter with home heating oil. First fillups should come right before election time. ITS going kick people in the gut when they get that $1500 bill and this nonsense of not drilling will hopefully end.
I've heard various predictions about how much oil would be obtained from ANWR. But no one seems to have a simple apples-to-apples figure. So let me ask:
1. How many million barrels would be obtained from the new ANWR field(s) during its useful lifetime? (total barrels)
2. How many million barrels per day are consumed by the US? (barrels per day)
It seems to me that these two questions ought to have fairly clear, straightforward answers.
Then we can divide #1 by #2 and get the number of days that the ANWR supply would provide oil if it were the only source; of course it's not, but one starts the computation by doing each source separately.
Reason I ask is that I've heard figures as low as "a couple of weeks". If so, it's a drop in the bucket, literally.
I would like to have some figures to counter that argument that it's not a large source.
Thanks in advance.
That is a great presentation.
The thing is, there is oil there and lots of it, and it is not just about Anwr, it is about every known oil source in the US, including off shore oil deposits. We need to open them all up to drilling and open more land to exploration. There is no “alternative” energy source at this moment and there is likely not to be one for at least another 30 years. So do we sit around and not drive for 30 years or do we drill oil and use what we have until the alternatives are found? I vote for drilling and using. The way we stifle creativity in this country now I would be surprised if an “alternative”(a viable one) ever surfaces.
Someone here at Free Republic had a link to Gull Island. Right around the corner of Anwr. Is that a hoax? 200 years of oil, capped and ready to go?
Our liberal, idiot, friends have made it ILLEGAL to take the measurments necessary to accurately project ANWR potential.
The figures I've seen so far (US Gov. EIA Analysis of Crude Oil Production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) show:
In the mean ANWR oil resource case, additional oil production resulting from the opening of ANWR reaches 780,000 barrels per day in 2027 and then declines to 710,000 barrels per day in 2030.
In the low and high ANWR oil resource cases, additional oil production resulting from the opening of ANWR peaks in 2028 at 510,000 and 1.45 million barrels per day, respectively.
Between 2018 and 2030, cumulative additional oil production is 2.6 billion barrels for the mean oil resource case, while the low and high resource cases project a cumulative additional oil production of 1.9 and 4.3 billion barrels, respectively."
The opening of ANWR is projected to have its largest oil price reduction impacts as follows: a reduction in low-sulfur, light crude oil prices of $0.41 per barrel (2006 dollars) in 2026 for the low oil resource case, $0.75 per barrel in 2025 for the mean oil resource case, and $1.44 per barrel in 2027 for the high oil resource case, relative to the reference case."
So if the above figures are right, drilling in ANWR will drop the price of gas at the pump about a nickel, starting in 10 years, and not really having much effect until 20 years from now.
This is according to the government... I find it hard to believe everyone is wo worked up over a nickel in a decade or two. Anybody have reputable figures to counter this??
Big caribou bump
Absolutely! That's why I'm sorta confused by all the concentration on ANWR, which seems to me to be a rather small item on what SHOULD be a much larger agenda to expand drilling and developing.
It seems stupid and self-defeating to me to not get every resource we have into production.
Especially if new drilling sites do take a decade to start being productive. We're out of our minds to sit on our hands.
Correct. It illustrates the principle of not being allowed to get to energy source in this country.
Coal, oil shale, building refineries and nuke plants...
Seriously? Illegal? I didn't know that. How come?
No, lemme guess... if we take accurate figures, it'll be seen as getting the foot in the door to drilling, right?
Sheesh...
Go ahead and drill. It won't matter. Not a bit.
> Go ahead and drill. It won't matter. Not a bit.
What do you mean, it won't matter a bit?
No one to vote for in Maine, and we’ll be one of the hardest hit states come this winter!! Our former Gov. King said a “catastrophe” was heading our way this winter, and, it is. Sen. Susan Collins just put out her 10 point energy plan-nothing about drilling!! Her opponent is Cong. Tom Allen. Some choice we have up here....
Cargo cult, drink the Kool-aid.
Great presentation, except for one thing.
The last page mentions the liberal wet-dream of having higher-priced
gasoline.
But the liberals are now gnashing their teeth:
They’ve now got the high-priced gasoline they wished for,
BUT...they didn’t get it in the way they wanted...
having 100% of the price increases being due to added tax to get the
financial heroin (other peoples money...which is taxes) the Dems in
Congress need to keep them in office.
But I guess the Dems must take some solace that a lot of the increases
in the price of a barrel of oil are going into the pockets of people
that want to kill the USA.
I’m sure that mekes the Dems proud...keeping that money out of the
hands of greedy Americans.
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