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America Is Not Prepared to Safely Drill in ANWR

The Alaskan refuge belongs to the American people, not the oil industry

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You say that it will take 10 years before anything comes out of ANWR if we start the process today. That is states as fact yet there isn't a single drilling operation that has been started that took 10 years to produce. The reason it takes 10 years to produce is because idiots like you and the people who believe your lies keep going to court to delay the process.

You say that "President Obama made a decision that would help America break our oil addiction." Yet the standards have been set before and never been met. As you stated the standards are set to take effect in 2025 which is 14 years from now. That's 4 years longer than trying to get oil out of ANWR will take using your flawed assumption of 10 years.

The logic of the barren waste land (90%+ of ANWR is barren waste land) hugging environmental morons is so hard to follow that most people give up and just decide not to fight because it takes too much energy and we are short on it. You have been telling the American people for 30 years that every place the oil companies want to drill will take 10 years to get anything out. Well, if we had started drilling 30 years ago, we could have broken our addiction to foreign oil 20 years ago. Nice job. Your movement has now set us back 20 years.

And your hero, Al Gore has made millions, if not billions of dollars hawking his scientifically challenged BS while you sit back and cheer the fact that he uses as much energy to make his one mansion comfortable as 20 average Americans use on their simple homes.

Hypocrisy means nothing to you, does it. As long as you accomplish the goal of keeping America dependent on foreign oil.

CThatcher of VA 9:03PM November 03, 2011

Huh, another wrong-minded Democrat on Odumbo's team writing another article they think is true. Well, I've got news for you. One, ANWR IS ready to be drilled. Two, what the crap does a USCG base have to do with anything in ANWR? ANWR is on-shore, not offshore; what does have ice-breaking ships have to do with anything? Besides, the only two disasters we've ever had in this country were in 1991, with the Exxon Valdez and then, last year with the Deep Horizon BP oil rig. Two accidents in 20 years, and yet, we've been drilling for oil in this country since 1858. I think our record on oil drilling speaks for itself.

Also, some history: Teddy Roosevelt was a conservationist who believed in the citizens being good stewards of the environment. Why wouldn't we be this time around? Besides, I don't like having to pay out the butt for the import prices on foriegn oil, not to mention the speculation that goes on consistently on the market. I say to let ANWR be drilled, but there needs to be safety adhered to, as well as prompt response for anything that may happen there.

But lady, you are most definitely wrong. You think that if we protect the entire world from industrialization that we'd all be happier for it; but, the fact of the matter is, most Americans are willing to pay for technology and convenience. Oil from ANWR provides both, not to mention the thousands of jobs that are needed nationally right now. Lastly, you probably don't give a damn about creating jobs, as you write trash and bigger fools than you read the trash you write, so you probably overcharge to have published the trash you write. In essence, you don't worry about a job like the rest of us because you have a job: Being the biggest pain in the neck to most Americans who depend every day on having enough fuel to travel 40 miles or more to work, because they can't afford to move closer to home.

I hope that when the election of 2012 comes around, you fade into obscurity and that nobody ever listens to you again. We don't need naysayers like you telling us it's wrong to depend on ourselves; what we need right now, and need it desperately is good old fashioned American ingenuity and hard work, without government intereference--and if you truly could get out of the way of the American worker, you'd be amazed at how much we can get done, if we only had the tools and the jobs to do it. We did it before, we'll do it again, on our own if need be.

Isaiah of MI 8:59PM November 03, 2011

i dont see you tree hugers walking to work or walking to a foreign country to your vacations, whipping your butts with a rock. you use everything that we use and abuse it as well.

guillermo of CA 8:55PM November 03, 2011

The spill in the Gulf was 1 1/4 miles under the sea, because the government will not allow the plentiful oil reserves in shallow water on land to be drilled. ANWR is on land. On land, not 8,000 ft below the surface of the sea. ANWR is 19,000,000 acres. The oil drilling footprint would be 2,000 acres. It is a frozen desert most of the year. The drill site is 70 miles from the existing Alaskan pipeline and could bring the USA 1.7 million gallons a day. Raising a standard does not make it happen. I do not want my family ridding at highway speeds in a little tin machine. The spec is more mpg that a Harley motorcycle gets today.

FloridaNative2 of FL 8:54PM November 03, 2011

Drilling in ANWR is not a problem. The current pipeline attracts the caribou to the heat emitted from it.

We need to stop giving all of our money to the arabs and keep it local. You environmentalists I have only this to say, "Here's your sign!"

Kelley Sosa of AZ 8:52PM November 03, 2011

Not much left to say after the 1st comment other than Lady get a life!

Get over it of MO 8:45PM November 03, 2011

We aren't ready to drill in the Arctic?

Then what have we been doing at Prudhoe Bay for the past 30 years?

Liz of AK 8:44PM November 03, 2011

Lady, it is people like you that are helping to fund the terrorist around the world. Your simplistic single-minded views of the world and your overbearing drive to be a hero in your own mind has caused, and will continue to cause a lot of people a great deal of pain and financial heartache.

I am all for protecting, let me restate that, using the resources that we have in a responsible manner, but when I saw the map in the link below I was outraged. How could a nation that depends on low cost energy argue for over 20 years about drilling for needed supplies in a place so remote that 99% of Americans will never go there and most don’t even know where it is? Then add to the fact that the local people want to drill there, they want the jobs that it will provide, and the income to feed their families it is insane not to drill.

http://www.anwr.org/docs/CloseupofareaIII.pdf

You and people like you are a bigger threat to this nation than terrorists will ever be. The people that think you are correct need to do is a little research on the Alaska pipeline and look at all the BS that was being said prior to it being built and the oil flowing to the US market.

As far as President Obama’s decision to raised fuel efficiency standards, all that has done is raise the price of a new automobile. And you are WRONG, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was designated by the government for the American people. The government is supposed to represent the American people and the American people would be far better off with lower fuel prices than some refuge that no one is going to visit or cares about.

Larry of CA 4:52PM November 03, 2011

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