Reply #10: What a freaking tool. I almost spit my tea out. [View All]

Really, ANWR is the reason? Not India, Not China, not overconsumption in general? Not the unrest of the Mideast which President Tool contributed to? Not deliberate price gauging by oil companies, not overspeculation at the stockmarket? Nope, its ANWR, whih studies have shown has more natural gas than oil and which would do diddly squat to help us. Check this article out posted on MSNBC.com:


updated 8:45 p.m. ET, Tues., March. 16, 2004
WASHINGTON - Opening an Alaska wildlife refuge to oil development would only slightly reduce America’s dependence on imports and would lower oil prices by less than 50 cents a barrel, according to an analysis released Tuesday by the Energy Department.

The report, issued by the Energy Information Administration, or EIA, said that if Congress gave the go-ahead to pump oil from Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the crude could begin flowing by 2013 and reach a peak of 876,000 barrels a day by 2025.

But even at peak production, the EIA analysis said, the United States would still have to import two-thirds of its oil, as opposed to an expected 70 percent if the refuge’s oil remained off the market.




We would still have to import oil. That is not dependence. That is just a way to make oil companies richer and detroy the environment even more. What a tool.