Alaskan Delegation to Try for ANWR Again
Written by Sam on March 21st, 2008With oil prices hitting record highs and pretty much every state now over $3.00 per gallon for gas, Senators Ted Stevens (R-AK) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) are again attempting legislation to successfully open up ANWR for drilling.
ANWR is an area approximately the size of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island combined. The area we would be drilling in would be about as large as the Charlotte International Airport, a mere speck. It is absurd that our government continues to block access to our own natural resources, but we have China drilling off the coast of our nation.
Alternatives to oil are inevitable in the long run, but in the short term we need to be increasing the supply available to bring down the high prices. If the Democrats truly cared about the poor (the only thing they care about is their vote) then they would stop standing in the way of this every time it is brought up. Opening up ANWR would also be a financial boom to Alaska and create lots of jobs. This should be a decision left to the people of Alaska, not a bunch of bureaucrats from 49 other states.
It’s time the Democrats and a hand full of RINOs stop this reactionary pandering to extremist environmental groups and do the right thing for the American people.
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PM
Eh I am less and less supportive of an ANWR plan every time its brought forward. Oil is a finite resource and the United States should start preparing for the day that oil might not be available in vast quantities. This might happen in three or four decades or in century, but for once this nation needs to prepare for an eventuality that is bound to happen.
The American people do not seem to mind high gas prices enough to curtail their driving significantly or using less to heat their homes.
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AM
Oh I get it, we should pay more just because we can.
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PM
No we should not waste. If Americans were more responsible in their use of oil, the price would fall because demand would also fall.
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PM
So we should manipulate market demand for oil by manipulating the price by restricting supply? And what school of Marxism did you attend?
If Americans want to pay more or less for oil that is their right as members of a free society. If investors want to risk capital on drilling for oil in ANWAR that is their right in a free society.
Who are you to tell free people what resources they should and should not consume and at what price it is okay for them to consume them at?
Oil use has never been more efficient than it is right now in 2008, we get more BTUs per barrel of oil than at any time in history. So what again is your point about waste?
People are choosing to take their money and spend it on a bigger car that they use to live further away from their place of work and school. They can do whatever the hell they want with their disposable income and any group of people can choose to sell them any product that helps them do so at whatever price they both agree upon. This is called the free market.
FWIW, the price of oil is not solely determined by the American consumer.