Why are the people ranting about making the Saudis rich, also preventing us from

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drilling ANWR and Offshore? Seems if we use our own supply, we wouldn't be making the Saudis rich. What say you?
 
Because keeping us from drilling here keeps the prices of oil up and our governement is so entrenched in the Middle East we need to keep our focus there.
 
Liberal tree huggers and owl spotters are to blame.

I hear liberals ranting about how we should drill in Alaska, then they are the first ones to stage mass protests in Alaska and to take their case to Congress.
 
Reminds me of an old MAD Magazine cartoon.

A guy is walking down the street and sees an older gentleman dutifully adjusting his hat and tie as he readies for work. He looks disdainfully at the elderly gentleman and says, "Why can't the selfish older generation move aside and let the young take their rightful place?"

The guy walks to the next block and sees the residents of the retirement home, sitting on the front porch. Once again, he looks at them in disgust and says, "Typical old people. Just a drain on productive society."

The people who advocate against drilling in ANWR have no idea how this could change the whole stranglehold OPEC has on us. Remember, these are the same whack jobs who stridently denounced what has indisputably been proven to be safe, clean nuclear energy. If we had ignored these unwashed hippies back in the '70s, we would be energy sufficient right now, and could tell the Middle East to go pound sand.
 
Why waste money on exploring a finite resource.

Since the price of oil is controlled by OPEC any oil found would not lower the price.

I and many others believe that are money would be better spent looking for other options rather than wasting money on something that will not last.
 
Because it is best to use someone elses supply while we can.

We could cut foreign oil consumption by about 40 percent in one year if we had an electric car that got 200 miles per charge. This morning it was announced the consumer demand was lower this month then last. Can we attribute that to a few million Toyota Priuss out there on the road?

Then we would be making Detroit rich, but they will sit on their fat union a55, and the Japanese will smoke them again.
 
that would solve a lot of our supply problems. also building new refineries would be the first step. all ours are old and antiquated but we can't build new ones for the same reason that we can't drill for our own oil...the environmentalist.

they are the ones who complain about the government the loudest too.
 
ANWR has at most 10 billion barrels. Study up a little on oil rather than listening to talk show hosts who are spewing one or two oil companies party line.

ANWR should be held as a RESERVE. Using it now would only profit the companies holding the rights...it wouldn't do much for the US. 10 Billion barrels is about 40% of our annual use in the US, about 1 month of use for the world.

edit @ justagirl - you are kinda right. The highest estimates say 10 billion barrels, we use 24 billion barrels a year in the US. So it's about 5 or 6 months total.

edit: to everyone else. There is an Alaska OIL pipeline. There still in no Alaska GAS pipeline. If you can find smuggled Prudhoe bay footage you will see what happens to the USELESS gas - it's burned off.

First step would be to finish building a gas pipeline. Why waste that resource when we need it?
 
I'm a geologist, I've drilled for oil on the North Slope, next to ANWR. Nothing but barren tundra. The oil exploration happens during the winter to minimize the environmental impact, which is non-existent. The libs who forced that legislation have no idea what they are talking about. I worked for Halliburton Energy Services, great company.
 
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