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Originally Posted by dxpoo
I ask you this... When did these discoveries make the costs of fuel decrease? I realize that it will take time to bring them online, but truly I ask of anyone... Show me when a new source of oil has decreased the its price for more than the shortest of short terms. There are new drilling rigs being built upon new fields all the time, and oil costs continue to rise.
So what is so special about ANWAR that it will solve, or even help to solve the energy crisis we face?
In fact, there are companies right now that are investigating large-scale algal diesel production that say they can be online in 4 years, which is much sooner than ANWAR can be exploited.
will cause a tremendous negative international view of our country (this IS important in a global economy),
I'm aware of the recent safety records of the oil companies, but my generation watched them dredging dead animals out of Prince William Sound after the Exxon-Valdez ran aground. Remember, Soviet nuclear energy had a terrific record until a few tenths of a second before that famous Chernobyl fuel rod got stuck.
In light of this, I could not in good conscience support the perversion or possible loss of such a national treasure like ANWAR.
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Show me a time when demand has dropped. If you have 500 widgets and the world needs 500, bringing the production to 600 will drop demand. HOWEVER, if the world population grows and needs 600 then it won't. OTOH, keeping production at 500 when the world needs 600 and then 700 will cause the price to go up.
Got anything else we can sell that brings in revenue? How about manufacturing? Nope. Computer software? Try again.
Can it be made into gasoline? Can it be made into other products which we get from oil? I think not. At least not economically at this time.
Why would it do so and why do we care? It's not like we are dating the world. If we have something they want, we do business. If not, goodwill or not, they tell you to fawk off.
Are you and your generation going to avoid cars? I see cars have horrible accidents. Ships sink. Planes crash. You can fall into a hole walking too. What of it? Now if you are looking on how many barrels of oil spilled vs how many didn't, what does that equation tell you?
I can buy food with the money I get from selling oil from ANWAR. Can I eat that pristine treasure?