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jorgelito · 03-17-2005, 01:45 PM

The main problem is that drilling in the ANWR won't produce results for years. Even then, most if not all the oil will be going to China and Japan (I will look for the source of this contention. Hopefully you guys can too - I have finals *wah*).

So, for us non-liberals, this another angle to see it. I'm not sure I want to subsidize someone else's oil 'habit'.

We could definitely find alternative sources and technologies by the time anything in the ANWR comes online (up to 12 Years). Therefore, it is silly or negligible (from an oil standpoint) in my opinion to drill there.

Or, what happens after we suck the 6-18 months supply dry? Then what? we're back to square one and have to find another source again. We might as well get it right now and be reliant on no one but ourselves. No Japanese hybrid technology, no Middle-East Oil, no African dictators, no south American corrupt governments.

We need to develop our own sources of alternative energy and not rely on others. I believe this will do wonders for our economy and foreign policy.

Here are two different sources of info regarding the issue - The Heritage Foundation and Reuters. I believe this to be a good balance of info so as to avoid right-left etc bickering. There's more but we all have 'google'.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Ene...nderforprint=1

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N16720379.htm

03-17-2005, 01:45 PM	#67 (permalink)
jorgelito All important elusive independent swing voter... Location: People's Republic of KKKalifornia	The main problem is that drilling in the ANWR won't produce results for years. Even then, most if not all the oil will be going to China and Japan (I will look for the source of this contention. Hopefully you guys can too - I have finals wah). So, for us non-liberals, this another angle to see it. I'm not sure I want to subsidize someone else's oil 'habit'. We could definitely find alternative sources and technologies by the time anything in the ANWR comes online (up to 12 Years). Therefore, it is silly or negligible (from an oil standpoint) in my opinion to drill there. Or, what happens after we suck the 6-18 months supply dry? Then what? we're back to square one and have to find another source again. We might as well get it right now and be reliant on no one but ourselves. No Japanese hybrid technology, no Middle-East Oil, no African dictators, no south American corrupt governments. We need to develop our own sources of alternative energy and not rely on others. I believe this will do wonders for our economy and foreign policy. Here are two different sources of info regarding the issue - The Heritage Foundation and Reuters. I believe this to be a good balance of info so as to avoid right-left etc bickering. There's more but we all have 'google'. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Ene...nderforprint=1 http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N16720379.htm Last edited by jorgelito; 03-17-2005 at 01:48 PM.. Reason: grammar