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"ANWR is the bridge to our energy future" says the Alaskan senator.
I was just listening to Sen. Murkowski, from Alaska, speak on the Senate floor in support of drilling for oil in ANWR, the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve.
"ANWR is a bridge to our energy future" she says.
I always get nervous when someone from Alaska starts talking about bridges.
ANWR is not in any way a solution, not even in a small way, to our oil addiction.
The U.S. uses about 7.5 billion barrel of oils a year. It is estimated that ANWR contains 10.5 billion barrels.
That will sustain the U.S. for 18 months.
If, that is, the oil in ANWR is even meant for consumption in the U.S. Many have posited that we would export the oil.
The only beneficiaries of ANWR are the oil companies and the military. The Department of Defense is the biggest buyer of oil in the world.
Billions of barrels have already been used to support our occupation in Iraq.
If we want lower gas prices, the most efficient way to do it is to give up Cheney's war habit.
If and when we do, it would add billions of barrels of oil to the world supply, and prices will drop dramatically.
Please contact your Senators and insist that they vote against drilling in ANWR.
Comments (4)
2006 apparently was the last year for which statistics are available. The US military was using about 2-3% (@160MILLION bbl/yr) of the total amount used in the USofA. We could shut them down and not feel a ripple at the pump, it seems to me...
May 12, 2008 6:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't know how to reconcile your numbers with this:
According to the Defence Logistic Agency, as of November 2005 more than 2.1 billion gallons of fuel have been used in support of our invasion of Iraq.
This number is likely way understated.
May 12, 2008 11:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
AIUI, ANWR won't yield oil for about a decade, by which point we'll be really desperate for crude oil. It will just get harder and harder to say no.
May 12, 2008 6:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
They are already drilling in ANWR via horizontal drilling techniques. All the lands around it were bought and drilling is being done there. The Senator is again trying to keep folks from knowing the real story.
May 12, 2008 10:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
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