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Article co-penned by Woolsey
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0329/p11s02-coop.html
Interesting that security is indeed an important issue. Primarily the economics of the project and cost of delivery; though certainly the profitability has widened their eyes.
My understanding talking to my Alaskan friends is the oil they are looking at is "heavy" crude, not really useful to remove much of our dependence.
What it does say is something all should heed and frankly we can achieve the goal thru conservation. Smaller cars, more efficient, and certaily wiser driving habits. IMO
Article co-penned by Woolsey
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0329/p11s02-coop.html
Interesting that security is indeed an important issue. Primarily the economics of the project and cost of delivery; though certainly the profitability has widened their eyes.
My understanding talking to my Alaskan friends is the oil they are looking at is "heavy" crude, not really useful to remove much of our dependence.
What it does say is something all should heed and frankly we can achieve the goal thru conservation. Smaller cars, more efficient, and certaily wiser driving habits. IMO
For national securtiy we should be drilling for oil in every corner of this country. We should be using Nuke technology and open as many as we need. We should be using corn or whatever the hell else we can to make fuel. I know I am getting a wood or pellet stove before the next winter. This is our fault we let all the damn tree huggers and oil companies do this to us. We as the people of this country need to take back control of our energy use. We does not mean the govt.
Judge did you get your bike yet?
Judge did you get your bike yet?
Judge Wapner said:
Well knowing how govt works they prolly would. But I say lease the land Don't give up the land to these corporations.
Cussin I think it is people's right to own a hummer. But the great thing about this country is people have the right to be dumb as hell also. BTW I would never never own a hummer knowing what I know. Take that for what it's worth.
Judge Wapner said:
Judge this may shed some light....
taken from: http://www.politicalgateway.com/main/columns/read.html?col=467
"Pay attention. This is important.
Not one drop of oil that is taken out of the ground in Alaska, our forty-ninth state, is used anywhere in the other forty-nine states.
What's more, the rights to the oil don't even belong to an American company.
This isn't difficult. It is actually very simple. That is why it baffles me it is not common knowledge.
British Petroleum, a BRITISH COMPANY owns the rights to the oil under the ground in Alaska, specifically a state in the United States of America.
How did that happen?
Remember the Exxon Valdez?
Exxon sold off their rights when they lost big time when their ship's captain was drunk and the tanker ran aground and spilled the oil all over the place. Enter BP.
However, even though BP owns the oil, they aren't being the bad guy here by sending the oil somewhere other than to the lower forty-eight states. No. It is not the case.
I remember when they built the Alaskan Pipeline. Like so many other Americans I supported it because I lived through the oil embargo of the seventies and if we could use our own oil I was all for it. If a pipeline would do it I thought we should build it. It made sense to me.
But it was a scam. It was as much a scam then as it is now.
Did anyone ever ask where the Exxon Valdez was headed when it ran aground? Did anyone ever think to ask?
Was it headed for an oil refinery in Seattle, or Portland, or San Francisco, or Los Angeles, or even San Diego?
If you thought it was going to one of those cities that has the facilities to refine the oil into gasoline you would be mistaken. You would be sadly mistaken.
When the Exxon Valdez left port its destination was Yokohama, Japan.
In fact, since the pipeline first opened 99.9% of the oil has gone directly to Japan.
Think about it.
We buy oil from the Arabs and we buy oil from the British. The British, British Petroleum, send us oil from the North Sea. Our oil, our Alaskan oil, is sent to Japan.
Welcome to a global economy and the New World Order.
Drilling for oil and building the pipeline that will become necessary as a result of the drilling will not lower gasoline prices here in the United States. In fact it won't lower prices anywhere. What it will do is help stabilize prices in Japan. ..."
i'm all for drilling anywhere and everywhere, but drilling in alaska won't solve all our problems by a long shot.
if i remember correctly, there's enough recoverable oil in alaska to meet our entire oil requirement (the U.S.'s) for about 18 months...
or, more ideally, enough to provide 7.5% of our need for the next 20 years (what the plan would be)...
sure, it's better than nothing, and it would lower our oil imports by somewhere around 15-20% (i forget the exact number)...
but it's far more important to increase fuel efficiency requirements, develop hybrid technologies, etc. etc.
i couldn't care less about caribou and wildlife. i would wipe every caribou off the face of the earth if it meant we could give a big middle finger to the Middle East and never need one more drop of oil from them...
but drilling in alaska isn't going to save us. not even close.
if i remember correctly, there's enough recoverable oil in alaska to meet our entire oil requirement (the U.S.'s) for about 18 months...
or, more ideally, enough to provide 7.5% of our need for the next 20 years (what the plan would be)...
sure, it's better than nothing, and it would lower our oil imports by somewhere around 15-20% (i forget the exact number)...
but it's far more important to increase fuel efficiency requirements, develop hybrid technologies, etc. etc.
i couldn't care less about caribou and wildlife. i would wipe every caribou off the face of the earth if it meant we could give a big middle finger to the Middle East and never need one more drop of oil from them...
but drilling in alaska isn't going to save us. not even close.
BASEHEAD said:
this is the list of our biggest imports, as of feb 2006
mexico, canada, saudi arabia, nigeria and venezuela top the list
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html
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