ANWAR - Nineteen million acres of controversy. According to a news bulletin released by the Department of the Interior in March of 2003, the potential for oil production from ANWAR exceeds the daily oil production for ANY onshore reserve thus far discovered in the United States.
Further, the bulletin states that with current technology, we can still protect the ecology, create jobs and reduce our dependence on foreign oil supplies. Estimates from the Department of the Interior suggest production of 1.4 million barrels of oil daily, or approximately the amount we imported daily from Saudi Arabia in January of 2008.
One of our least visited public land sites, the ANWAR sits at the very top of Alaska where it connects to Canada. It is estimated that out of 19,000,000 acres of the reserve, no more than 2,000 would be needed to retrieve the oil reserves contained there. Why do we not have people there drilling as we speak? Eco-terrorism.
Groups like the Sierra Club, and the World Wildlife Foundation have made it politically incorrect to use our own resources. Throwing money and lobbyists against any attempt to develop our resources.
I believe it is time for us to take a stand, take back our country and kick these lobbyists out of Washington. If we will allow it, the free market will find a way to provide the things we need at the lowest possible price.
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May 15th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
What are we waiting for. Do we need to lose everything before we drill for oil in Anwar. I love wildlife myself, but I put humans first the way it is suppose to be. Let’s take away all the food and energy from all these idiots that don’t want us to drill or use oil because we’re killing the earth, and see how they survive. We can already see what the corn alone is doing to us and the third world countries. I’m sick of crazy people telling us what to do. We need to fight back. GOD BLESS YOU Karen Houston texas
May 15th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
And what about those poor defenseless polar bears, the ones that have had their numbers steadily increasing to their present high. We might disturb them by drilling in Alaska so let’s label them a threatened species in order to prevent those evil money hungry oil barons from drilling Alaska.