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Good to hear from another pragmatic person on this site. It's not a matter of ideology. It's a matter of common sence. We shouldn't use our reserves as long as we can get somone elses relatively cheaply.

I don't mind drilling ANWAR some day when oil is $500 a barrel but to use up our recources now is foolish.

We shouldn't use our reserves as long as we can get somone elses relatively cheaply.

And be held hostage to the wishes of the mideast in the meantime? Why do you think Bush made the deal for the oil from Russia? To enable us NOT to be dependent on mideast oil. Being dependent means THEY control what we do.

If we wait on Anwar - when we need the oil - it will take 4 yrs. to get it. We need to get the wells drilled and then possibly cap them if we decide to keep as reserves.

The whole thing on ANWAR is merely the environmentalists trying to keep America weak and dependent. The democrats get a lot of support from the Saudis and the Saudis probably don't want us independent.

The whole ANWAR situation just shows what side the politicians are on. The side with the environmentalist socialists or the side of American lawmakers.

"We shouldn't use our reserves as long as we can get somone elses relatively cheaply."

Cheap is relative. Look at the big picture. How much do you think it costs on an annual basis to keep troops in the middle east to protect our oil interests?