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The Senate voted 51/49 so dont think the USA is all agreed on this. They have been blocking this bill for years. Why do you think this a good idea?

http://www.wellesley.edu/Newspaper/arch ... 148o1.html

http://www.dailycampus.com/news/2005/02 ... 9757.shtml

   

Are you from Newfoundland, WpgGweedo?

Americans benefiting from their own resources - how ASSANINE.

If you live in North America, you will benefit from this whether you pedal a bike or drive a hummer. Oil drives power prices, natural gas prices, gasoline, diesel (how do you think your veggies get to market - it ain't on a donkey), etc.

The environmentalists would declare an outhouse as a national treasure if oil were found underneath it.

Horizontal drilling techniques are such that you can be miles from a reserve and get to the oil. I don't believe Alaska has the oil sands (could be wrong..?). It's not like you nuke the 1.5MM acres, take the oil and walk away.

There are ways of doing it properly.

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ITs going to destroy the wildlife in the area and there wont be much oil in the first place. The need to "explore" which means drill a lot of big holes in the ground.

   

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I don't think a lot of you realize just how centered your life is around oil. I mean it is easy to denounce these practices but could you imagine if, say, the oil supply ran out tomorrow? Utter chaos. How could you live without oil? As an example, I live on Vancouver Island and most of our things are brought in from the mainland via ferries, ships, and planes. I don't even think we could survive a week without oil. The hypocrisy in the left is amazing, the same people who tote "NO BLOOD FOR OIL" signs depend on oil for their livelihood. Simply amazing.

   

I don't care what they do on their side of the fence... BUT, is this gonna affect us... Are they still planning to run their pipes on Canadian soil... How far south are they gonna run those pipes. Alaska runs deep along the BC Coast. That would be a big concern.

Hey Trevor...
Cool green BTW

   

Assuming that's true, how would that affect us Mario? Couldn't we reap the benefits of all that oil?

   

The US wouldn't need to drill there if the government had the balls to tell the automakers to make more fuel efficient cars and if regular people had the wit to realize that oil is a finite resource.

Either way, it will take a least a decade for any potential oil fields to come online and Iraq's oil output is still way below pre-war levels so Americans are going to have to learn to live with oil prices that are high for them and normal for everyone else in the world.

Furthermore, what's to say the oil prices will go down if a large amount of oil is found under the ANWR? The oil companies will probably keep the prices as they are and reap the profits.

   

Please explain the how the destruction of wildlife will occur. Are they going to randomly shoot caribou on arrival? Are they going to bulldoze caribou nests? Are the birds going to fly into flares and slaughter themselves?

Exploration doesn't mean "digging a bunch of holes and destroying wildlife", Adam. Even the environmentalists know that.

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What kind of hybrid do you drive, Xerxes?



Mario, please explain how is running a pipeline (that we would get royalties on) a big concern? TransCanada Pipelines just announced a crude oil pipeline from Fort Mac to Chicago for goodness sake.

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I thought the whole oil drilling thing was only centered on a fraction of a certain area, and not all of the wild reserve. What it comes down to is what the people in Alaska decide.

Most of these hybrid cars are WAY out of the price range of a good deal of Americans.

   

Not to mention the technology just isn't there yet as far as being "efficient".

   

Don't talk rot warhawk. Hybrid cars are way more efficient than regular cars.

   

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