Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.
Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.
Government experts have estimated that ANWR reserves would only provide enough oil for six months of U.S. oil consumption. In addition, the oil industry itself has estimated that it would take 10 years to bring this oil to the market.
These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
We can develop ANWR oil without harm to the environment and to the wildlife that live there,
Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline.
Members when it comes time to vote often have to balance where they are on one issue with where they might be on a handful of other issues, ... I'm not prepared to give up on ANWR yet.
Stable energy prices and enhanced national security will only come when we increase domestic energy resources, which was accomplished today with the opening of ANWR.
Opening ANWR is sound public policy that would serve the country well many years into the future,
Ultimately it's not serious in any way as proposed legislation, but it's very serious with regard to what the committee's real alternatives are, ... The chairman is actively working to make sure that it's ANWR -- and (the Arctic refuge) alone.
The Department of Energy says that drilling in ANWR will do little in the near term and very little in the long term, reducing gas prices by only one penny,
It's a sign of the frustration many Alaskans show with Sen. Cantwell and her stance on ANWR. It's highly unlikely we'd cut off our nose to spite her face.
There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR.
We must become more energy independent. The development of ANWR will assist in this goal.
Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort.
I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.
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