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December 21, 2005
Even USA Today Gets ANWR Drilling
Posted by Dave Blount at December 21, 2005 6:35 PM
Even left-leaning USA Today grasps what an absolute no-brainer it is that we need to drill for oil in ANWR:
The nation's painful but fleeting experience with $3 a gallon gasoline this summer demonstrated the need to both increase the supply of oil and curb demand for it. The disruptions from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita also showed how domestic oil production is dangerously concentrated in the Gulf of Mexico region. Drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), the largest untapped oil pool in the country, is ... a necessary step to augment long-term supply, one that can make the nation less vulnerable to the whims of nature and oil-producing countries.
Oil-producing countries that will use the proceeds to finance Islamic terrorism and the destabilization of democracies in Latin America, I might add.
More from the USA Today editorial:
ANWR has at least 6 billion and maybe 16 billion barrels of recoverable oil, U.S. Geological Survey says. It could provide 1 million barrels a day for 30 years, or about 5% of daily consumption. ... It could be done without wrecking the environment. ... Only 2,000 acres of the 19 million-acre ANWR refuge would be subject to drilling, in an area so remote that few Americans not associated with the oil industry will ever see it. ... Drilling would have economic benefits. It could create 250,000 to 735,000 jobs nationwide, supporters say. ... Allowing ANWR drilling would show that the nation is finally getting serious about acting in its best interest by tapping a rich energy source and curbing its dependence on Middle Eastern dictatorships.
If those arguments don't convince you that drilling in this godforsaken frozen wasteland on the far side of nowhere needs to start yesterday, this ought to: Congressional Dems — reliably wrong about pretty much everything — are so opposed to drilling that they used their beloved filibuster to kill a critical defense spending bill in order to stall it.
Precious ANWR wasteland.
