When oil costs $100 per barrel, then will liberals allow us to drill for it in ANWR?

Question

Or will it have to go even higher?

Phil - When you have to tell us that you are a "moderate" we can be sure that you are not a moderate. And, i don't own an SUV. My cars have 4 cyclinders not 8.

By the way - drilling in ANWR would not destroy it. We are talking about using about 1% or less of the area of ANWR to drill, the vast majority of it would remain untouched. And - if it is so beautiful, why don't you think about vacationing there?

Answer 1

I think we should allow drilling in ANWR but the revenue should be used to find some alternatives for our energy. At least this way we are not beholden to the Arabs.

Answer 2

Pandering to so called "environmentalist" Has left America dependent on energy from those that hate us. The Sierra Club is an off shoot of the Italian Communist Party that believed if you get control of environmental issues you can control the economy. China and Cuba are slant drilling into oil deposits that lay beneath the territorial waters of the U.S. I am tired of the far left in Congress not allowing us to develop like other countries. Forestry, mining, farming and manufacturing are and have been the base of our economy. Without them we will not succeed. John and Ken on ABC radio last week called for drilling in Anwr. In fact John said he wanted them to drill through an Elk.

Answer 3

How short sighted can you get? OK, so we drill in ANWR...then what? That's what non-renewable resource means. More drilling reduces the pressure for alternate energy sources, maybe a car that runs on sun for instance.
Or homes that can be heated geothermic ally inexpensively.
Isn't it better to bite the bullet now, while there are still some reserves, and pour money and technology into something else, instead of spending on pipelines that will eventually run just as dry?

Answer 4

Nope, of course not. For one what is the point in continually drilling and destroying species and landscapes when it is just as simple, if not more simple to investigate alternative fuels.

Secondly drilling in ANWR is not going to make even the slightest drop in the bucket price wise when you factor in that in order to ship the oil you Will ave to tanker it into the USA, or more feasibly use Canadian Pipelines.

Thirdly, the oil found in ANWR is tar sands. This isn't a drilling operation. To extract oil from tar sands is a very intensive, expensive and destructive process.

So finally extracting oil from ANWR will not effect price, will have a negative environmental impact, it will not yield a great profit (except for those Canadian midstream pipeline companies). what is the point?

Answer 5

So you believe liberals are making oil prices rise. That is so amazing.

This is the energy outlook form 2000(just before George was in office). Now remember, since then the administration and congress have passed a series of subsidies and deregulation to "help" the oil companies keep oil prices low.
Oil was not yet $30 a barrel. Most said it would never reach that, now we're looking at a $100 target.

For the upcoming summer season (April to September), motor gasoline markets are projected to exhibit an extraordinarily tight supply/demand balance.


Retail gasoline prices (regular grade) are expected to average $1.46 per gallon, 25 percent higher than last summer’s average of $1.17 per gallon. That projection also exceeds the previous (current-dollar) record summer average of $1.35 recorded in 1981. Nominal prices are expected to reach a peak of $1.52 per gallon in April—a new record--and decline steadily to $1.39 per gallon by September due to the impact of increases in world-wide crude oil production. These projections presume no disruptions of refinery motor gasoline production.

Answer 6

The price of a barrel of oil is caused by speculation in the commodities market not by lack of supply. A small increase in supply like the inclusion of ANWR oil would not affect the commodities speculation that is the root of the problem.

Answer 7

Part of the problem with the price of gasoline is the added taxes and the lack of desire of the oil companies to run the refineries at maximum capacity. There are other reasons for the price of gasoline than the price of oil. The oil would still be priced at the going rate in my opinion.

The price of gasoline has gone down right now. Why do people tend to want to blame one individual for a global problem. Al Gore is not the reason for the problems facing our planet.

Answer 8

No, because that will only drive the price of oil up.
Don't you understand that the 2/3 of US oil we get domestically, or from Mexico and Canada is far more expensive than OPEC oil.

The Canadians pay even more for Oil drilled in Canada, because the Oil companies that own the leases, charge more.

ME oil is the cheapest we will ever be able to buy.

Answer 9

Yes, let's destroy one of the few wildlife reserves we have left so that you can have cheap gasoline to put in your SUV. You have to pay $3 a gallon for gas? Poor baby. Maybe you should carpool, or take the bus, or get a more fuel efficient car. Or why don't you get off of your butt and walk to your destination once in a while? Or you could ride a bike. Maybe that's too hard for you because you'd actually have to WORK at something. And you conservatives have the NERVE to call liberals whiny. Geez!

(I'm a moderate, by the way)

Answer 10

Just get republicans out of the white house and congress and it will go down.

The world has passed peak oil. Alternative forms of energy are needed. The remaining oil in ANWR isn't enough to overcome the increasing demand from China and India.