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Quote by: Logjam However; it would be kind of nice to bring a million or so barrels of oil into the US from our wells. Otherwise we buy the stuff and give the money to the Arabs. It'd also be nice to provide well paying jobs to the 150 or so people who live around ANWR. Furthermore there are some who say that there is a lot more oil under ANWR that the anti-drill side says there is.
This defeat of the ANWR drilling is a travisty; it's a shame. But I agree that the tactic of tacking bills onto other bills is underhanded. Someone said that one doesn't want to watch sausage or laws being made. That's generally true.  |
i don't see drilling in anwr as being any solution whatsoever to our oil dependency.. anwr or not, we STILL depend entirely on foreign oil. ANWR is barely a drop in the bucket, so i can't agree that this is a travesty at all.
i wouldn't have a problem with drilling if the administration/congress included real assistance for alternative energies (i don't think this is really asking too much of our "leaders"). and if that was proposed, i can't see how drilling would've been opposed by the senate.