should they drill for oil in alaska and why or why not?
490943
Do we want to be self sufficient in oil or close to it?\nI do! The area of the drilling in Alaska is not going to hurt the earth nearly as much as I cars do. The oil pipes have proved that more animals are near them not less.\nProbably the heat from them. No animal has become extinct from the drilling. If we are concerned about the effect of oil drilling, we will bring out the horses. I love to ride horses but not in rain & they are a little slow for me. Crack up the drills.
975948
The only instance of animals dying in the ANWR is the caribou because they pass a pipe site, it was a coincedence that they were killed, it really won't affect the animals. Also, with the war and everything prices are going to be high for a long time, a private supply would give us oil for a long time! If you were at my school watching my groups presentation on why we should drill you would've had a more elaborate reason, sorry i can't give you more reasons, don't have the time.
439974
Don't be the first to talk s*** about drilling for oil, and then drive your mommy's SUV to the mall.  Your question has two conflicts, you can't have cheap oil prices and not drill for it somewhere.
1137597
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Refuge_drilling_controversy\n\nAlso look at the sites it references and the links from it.
304729
The environmentalists and congress are to be blamed. The environmentalists won't let us drill offshore, every time the oil companies try they take them to court, they fight every effort to drill in ANWAR. The stupid republicans don't have the guts to stand up for it. Then we can't build new refineries because some treehugger is worried about a tree slug or some other worthless animal. When oil prices were low it was to expensive for oil companies to invest in new equipment, now that oil prices are up they are starting to re-invest, but it will take time.\n\nOh one other thing is all these stupid blends in this country that is mandated by the government that really don't do anything. Then forcing the oil companies to waste time on ethanol doesn't help either.\n\nWhile some local stations collude on what they are going to charge. (I have been in a gas station when another station has called to ask what they are charging that day).
1110038
Drilling ANWR and offshore areas that have been restricted by ecowhacks is simply a matter of looking at what is truly in the best interests of this country.. \n\nthe proposed drilling area in ANWR consists of a 2000 acre plot of land, no bigger then 4 square miles in an area the size of California. \n\nThe logistics of refining and transport exist as the trans-alaska pipeline from Prudhoe to the Kenai, it's likely the TAP would at this time be adequate to handle any potential increase in volume. \nAs far as drilling in the reserve the impact on the surround water is minimal at well. If one looks at the geology of the area, ground water is generally surficial sources. Drilling of oil occurs at depth, pumped to the surface (IN a pipe) and put IN another pipe. \n\nHow drilling ANWR effect crude prices? Well that is a situation that I don't think we can truly answer. The fact is oil prices are tied to global consumption. The chinese entering the free market has dramatically changed the economics if precious minerals. \n\nHow it does effect the US economy is we are drilling in an area that is politically stable contrary to the middle east. I for one think in order to insure we are not influenced by factors outside the US we should not be dependent on sources of goods from outside the US. A very large portion of our trade deficit is for oil from Mexico, Venezuela and the Arabian penisula.\n\nHighlights of HR 5429:\n• Limits surface development to 2000 acres of the 10-02 Area;\n• Establishes a leasing program for the 10-02 Area; \n• Repeals prohibition of oil and gas leasing on federal and native lands in the10-02 Area;\n• Allows the establishment of 45,000 acres in the 10-02 Area to be designated “Special Areas” of unique or sensitive importance;\n• Sets a 200,000 acre minimum lease size;\n• Requires the first sale to be 22 months after enactment;\n• Establishes a “project labor agreement” for all lessees;\n• Requires site environmental analysis for each lease, and compliance with all Federal and State environmental codes;\n• Requires use of “best commercially available technology” for development;\n• Splits revenue 50-50 between State and Federal Governments;\n• Sets up an “Impact Aid” and “Community Service” program to any Alaskan community that can demonstrate impacts from development.\n\n Only 8% of ANWR Would Be Considered for Exploration Only the 1.5 million acre or 8% on the northern coast of ANWR is being considered for development. The remaining 17.5 million acres or 92% of ANWR will remain permanently closed to any kind of development. If oil is discovered, less than 2000 acres of the over 1.5 million acres of the Coastal Plain would be affected. That¹s less than half of one percent of ANWR that would be affected by production activity.
1150317
Make graft treason it's punishable by death!\nIt's time the officials had to work FOR us for a change\nThey tax us when we should get paid other gov's do it:\nOr for people who are making fun of those who claim everything is about oil. There's also this little fact:\n\nThe Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person. \n\nIn 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments. \n\nAlaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production. \n\nHoover Institution\n                                                                    Kuwait:\n\nDemocracy, Kuwait Style\n                                                                           Peter Berkowitz\n\n\n\nIt’s not that the woman question was the only issue faced by voters. From the owner and editor in chief of Kuwait’s largest newspaper, to the chief executive officer of Kuwait Petroleum Company, to the former Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States, our interlocutors argued that the Kuwaiti economy is stagnating and that the remedy is privatization. This is a difficult proposition, however, in a country where 90 to 95 percent of the labor force is employed by the government, which generally pays more than the private sector. And designing institutions to create the right incentives will be difficult in a country whose oil wealth supports a massive welfare state with no taxes that generously funds its citizens’ health, education, and housing needs. \n\nPollution free electric power has been all over DC. Clinton, Gore, Newt, Sam Nun, DOE, and many other you wouldn’t know.\n\nClinton “was too busy moving the country forward”\nGore said “I wish you good luck, I’m glad to see other’s are working
671361
I think we import a lot of oil from there, too.  It could be a win, win situation.  It will never happen, but I like the idea.  I think we should acquire Canada, too.  I KNOW we import a lot of oil from them...  It could be Bush's new plan to decrease our dependency on foreign oil!  It would definitely create new jobs!  We could even take them over by force... creating a need to PULL OUR TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ!!!!  \n\nI nominate you for president!  (I want a cabinet position, of course)
1100192
Oil! They are now drilling for it in the plains of Asher! It several miles deep. And may take a year to reach.   My question is will this relieve the pressure from the Saudi wells? If so all hell will break loose over there!
435914
There is a plan to tap the oil reserves in Alaska.  But I would ask you this... Do we really need more oil?  Why not find alternative energy sources?  What happens when all the oil runs out? (And it will).  Why do we have to ruin the pristine environment in Alaska with oil drilling and creating a pipeline that will ruin the habitat of many animals?\n\nBush is unfortunately a slave to big business and is not interested in "green" energy and moving the country away from oil, which is sad because we are ruining the earth's environment.  Whatever the Bush Administration says there is global warming and CO2 emissions, like those from cars, are in fact heating up the planet.  Hope you all have working bicycles because in the future with no oil that's what we will all be riding!
673688
Right now, none of it is exported. \n\nWhen the pipeline was constructed, there was a law that all the oil had to stay in the U.S.  In 1995, that law was rescinded, and through the late 90's, about 7%of the pipeline's output went to China and Japan.  That stopped in about 2000, and I don't think any Alaskan oil has been exported since.
192391
Will kid, it will be along time coming,President Richard M Nixon had quite allot of wells caped in the 70's Saving them as reserves for the faucher. And there are several undrilled wells to be drilled.We don't need Aarika oil,It just makes money for the Bush family,and there crone's. When the time Com's we can use synthetics,Alcohol burns rill good.NASCAR has bin using it for years.And NANSA has bin using hydrogen for year's as well.
452762
alaska is a good training ground.
1158575
of course we should drill there, i cant believe so many people are brainwashed into thinking that it is a good thing to leave it alone and that if we drill there, the whole place will be ruined.  \n\nwe need to get off our addiction to oil, but as long as we dont accomplish that, we should drill everywhere, including off all of our coasts and in our national parks.\n\nand we need to put up a lot more windmills.
391293
I think it's a stretch to compare Alaska to colonies.  No one is pointing a gun at Alaska and saying what its people can and can't do, whereas in European colonies in the past, peoples' lives were pretty much run by their oppressors.  And if I recall correctly, Alaska gets quite a bit of pork out of Washington.  \n\nI also think that from an environmental and economic standpoint, we may be losing more than we gain by going after Alaskan natural resources.
1160168
Canada is the place to be.  The province of Alberta is in the middle of an oil boom right now which means there is a serious shortage of labor here.  They are advertising all over the world looking for anyone that will come and help us out!  I saw a sign at a local fast food place the other day saying they start you out at $14/hr....flipping hamburgers!!!!  If you are interested in oilfield jobs they pay extremely well.  On drilling rigs, they start out at about $18/hr plus around $100/day tax free living allowance.  Some pay more.  You work 2 weeks of 12 hr shifts then a week off...the overtime really adds up!
966233
Yes, i realize that, since the US has sooo much oil in their reserves, seriously, they do.  Also, Alaska has an unfathomable amount of oil, the fair tax thing should be implemented though