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In South Dakota we have only one rep for the whole state, it is Stephanie Herseth (D). I will post her reply here if I get it anytime soon. I hope it passes this time! It doesn't hurt to hope I guess.

Hastert will not be able to hold the RINOs.  Been there, done that, no optimism left on ANWR.  We have met the enemy and he is us.  Maybe Castro will sell us some of the oil from off Florida.

Right now oil is fungible.  As soon as this oil is taken out of the ground in the US it goes on the world market.

Since in our lifetime oil is going to get more and more rare and valuable, why not leave American oil in the US as an American "strategic oil reserve"?

That instead of giving it away now to China or Japan.  

I think it is strategically wiser to use up other countries oil first.

For a time, Alaska oil was being exported to the Orient because there was not enough refinery capacity on the Left Coast to take it and it had to be shipped to the US Gulf and East Coasts.  By the time the transportation was paid, the oil was worthless to the State and the producers.  Alaska production is now less than 1MM bpd and it can be received on the Left Coast.

But since oil is fungible, even exporting it to the Orient just means that Middle Eastern oil formerly sent to the Orient can go to Europe or the US East Coast.

The US does have strategic reserves, including millions of acres in National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska, just west and south of Prudhoe Bay.  Formerly Naval Petroleum Reserve Alaska, it has been held as a strategic reserve since well before statehood.

  The left took a quick glance at some of the old standbys, racial inequality, poverty, the homeless,our deteriorating schools, and all the rest, and decided to bring out that old dog,global warming.  Brush the dust off and proceed to terrorize the mindless and impressionable and offer poverty for all as a solution.

    Gregg Easterbrook did a piece in the NY times yesterday of an alarmist nature and he had so many if's, maybe's and possibly's that the story either looked like it needed bandages or his crystal ball had a crack in it.

    So it goes, forget drilling in Alaska, we'll be lucky if they let us kep our unicycles.

But I don't think you answered my point.

There is enough oil right now, but there will not be enough for everyone in the future.

We have this great strategic oil reserve right now in ANWR, in addition to the National Petroleum Reserve.

I say buy up and use other countries oil, now while it is relatively cheap.  This will leave all of the ANWR oil under American control for the future security of America.

of America is better protected by stopping the use of petroleum products for anything that doesn't move; nuclear electricity generation for all stationary power and electrification of, at least, the long distance railroads.  Then use oil for the things that only oil can do with current technology: aircraft, trucking, a sizeable percentage of cars, etc.

How can it be a reserve if we don't know what's there. This can only be done by drilling sample wells to gauge the actual oil and gas in the ground. Estimates can vary wildly in the oil business.

has been heavily surveyed, including some exploratory drilling.  There are many ways other than drilling to determine the presence or likely presence of oil.

Who did the exploratory drilling in ANWR and why wasn't that reported anywhere by anyone? Drilling in Prudhoe Bay doesn't count.

The information I got from a quick survey of publications is that drilling in ANWR has always been off limits and no exploratory drilling has been done.

are two totally separate places separated by an area larger than all but a few states.

That is the biggest problem with the whole ANWR issue; nobody spouting about it knows where it is, what it is, or anything about it.

Alaska really isn't that funny shaped state just south of Hawaii as you see it on most maps.

I LOVE THE HOUSE !

It was BP & Chevron that drilled the only exploration well in ANWR.  

What are the results?  Top secret.

There are only a handful of people that know that answer.

In oil field parlance, it's called a tight hole. No, I'm not kidding.

when I heard that it passed the House.  I'm on record as having given up.  Now let's see how the Senate can screw this up.  The Trans Alaska Pipeline was only authorized on the vote of the Vice-President (Spiro Agnew), so these things have never been easy.