No one knows how much oil is there because we are not allowed to drill a real hole. Further exploration could prove you right. But until the government gets off big oil's back and lets them try, don't assert your "feeling" that there is 300 days of oil just because the state jerks you off from time to time.
The oil industry has already stated it is not worth drilling. The only way they were interested is if the government would pay the total drilling costs to them. In other words the would explore on contract for profit even though they know there isn't enough oil to be worth going after.
Take another look at the geology of those mountains, it just isn't oil country.
You really should cease your invention about the taxpayers paying for drilling. That's just ridiculous. The oil which even the always-under-projecting USGS claims in ANWR is more than ample to pay for its drilling, movement, and refining. Especially since the area in the mud flats near the shores where the oil happens to be is near enough to Prudhoe Bay that they can combine transport and save money.
The video is supposed to make you visualize what white nothingness is. This argument is about as true as taking an almost identical video somewhere in the corn belt during the coldest day of the year. I have been on the North slope in summer. A lush cornfield is looks like a desert compared to the richness of wildlife that thrives there. Nothingness is not what describes ANWR but the value of this video.
The problem with your dishonest claim is that this is the spot where the oil will be drilled, during the time of year when it will be pumped out, when there's nothing but the ice shown. During warm months it's nothing but mud flats after the ice melts. There's no "wildlife" nor anything "thriving" there, ever. It's empty, and dead, like your philosophy.
If you had an argument based in reality one assumes you'd use it, instead of the bunk you attempted.
well, and when you show pictures of Polar Bears on small little icebergs and you claim global warming, when in total reality the picture is a lie that was cropped to make it appear that way, then what do you call it...
I work in the North Slope every week of the year, and the area where drilling is supposed to take place (nearest town is Kaktovik on Barter Island), is a nearly flat barren wasteland where you are extremely lucky to spot 2-3 caribou over a 100 mile flight.
Importing oil from Venezuela & Saudi Arabia funds terrorists.
You can't cite an example of what you're worried may occur. The whole field can be drilled from one small area. That spot will operate during winter months when it's frozen over and evacuate during warm months, making it nigh impossible to detect. Look around areas to the west of the planned location and you'll have trouble finding the original Prudhoe Bay fields. Drilled more than 50 years ago, they haven't grown as you worry.
As for "cleaner fuel", I'm not very concerned about it. I know what the world was like before petroleum-powered conveyances, and I know what government may and what it may not do. Property rights, free markets, and tort law move things toward perfection in cleanliness and efficiency. Obey the Constitution and allow them to operate. It would be pleasant if my political opponents knew anything about the American political system, climatology, or justice.
Doing so would save us billions of dollars a year in imported oil, add the tax revenues from profits and jobs, add at least $5 billion in lease payments and billions more from royalty payments, deprive terrorists of funding, and help Alaskan natives find gainful employment. The people who live there overwhelmingly support it. Any who argue against it in the face of these facts are either corrupt or bigoted.
Just like their complaints about the damage the Alaskan oil pipeline would do to caribou were proven not only wrong, but the exact opposite of what happened: the caribou have prospered, expanding more than 6 fold since 1977. The same is true of their lies about polar bears: their numbers have quadrupled since the 1980's, rather than currently being endangered as they claim. There is no legitimate argument against Americans producing their own oil in their own country.
58-59 of 100 Senators supported opening the designated area, but the minority filibustered it, in violation of Americans' rights and desires, and one of the key supporters of the filibuster, Joe Lieberman, pretended foe of Muslim terrorists. Less than 100 miles to the West of the field there is oil being produced for the last more than 50 years with not an iota of damage. And modern production has never had any environmental damage that the pagan Earth-worshipping types claim to worry about.
This area was originally designated as being for oil production by the Democrats in December 1980, and is NOT designated as a wilderness area contrary to what some dishonest people claim. But the same party which took at least tens of millions of dollars from Communist China has by the corrupt and craven means of filibustering in the Senate blocked allowing the area to be used.
Less than 2000 acres would be drilled on. The (unconstitutionally stolen from Alaska by Democrats in December 1980 AFTER they lost control of the Senate) ANWR is more than 19,000,000 acres, which is 29687.5 square miles. There are 640 acres per square mile. So barely 3 square miles on ice is what this is about. Ice sheets with no life of any form whatsoever, which melt every summer and during which time there will be no oil production nor evidence of there ever having been any production there.
The response from you supporters of international terrorism (that's who you fund by stopping oil production in the designated 1/10000th sized fraction of ANWR) is typical of the totalitarian crowd. You don't know anything, but you don't want any information to be available to the Americans who you oppress with your dishonest actions. Keep your religion off our backs.
I'm a republican (sort of) doing my senior thesis on keeping ANWR wild. And i live in Texas. you cannot imagine how difficult doing both of these things are, but i will do it because i believe in it.
What a moronic attempt to justify drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! I worked in Prudhoe Bay for 8 years and have been in the refuge during the short but climatic summer, when the 150,000 strong Porcupine Caribou Herd is present, not to mention the bears, wolves and fox. Keep it wild!
There is enough oil there for 300 days.
Gas fields beside the reserve are so rich companies that own them can't be bothered to build a pipeline to them.
Your dreams of there being more oil there are just that, dreams.
The area was explored years ago. The geology was completely mapped, test wells were drilled. You can get the numbers directly from your govt.
We know how little oil is there and all of the oil companies are only willing to drill it if the govt pays 100% of the drilling costs.
scafool 3 years ago
No one knows how much oil is there because we are not allowed to drill a real hole. Further exploration could prove you right. But until the government gets off big oil's back and lets them try, don't assert your "feeling" that there is 300 days of oil just because the state jerks you off from time to time.
TokDiYel 3 years ago
Read what I posted.
The oil industry has already stated it is not worth drilling. The only way they were interested is if the government would pay the total drilling costs to them. In other words the would explore on contract for profit even though they know there isn't enough oil to be worth going after.
Take another look at the geology of those mountains, it just isn't oil country.
scafool 3 years ago
You really should cease your invention about the taxpayers paying for drilling. That's just ridiculous. The oil which even the always-under-projecting USGS claims in ANWR is more than ample to pay for its drilling, movement, and refining. Especially since the area in the mud flats near the shores where the oil happens to be is near enough to Prudhoe Bay that they can combine transport and save money.
itstruth 2 years ago
If what you claim were true, then why would you be worried about allowing drilling? Contradiction means falsehood.
The Saudi-backed Left in the U.S. and all over the world know the're full of crap. It's time for their dupes to wake up.
itstruth 2 years ago
The video is supposed to make you visualize what white nothingness is. This argument is about as true as taking an almost identical video somewhere in the corn belt during the coldest day of the year. I have been on the North slope in summer. A lush cornfield is looks like a desert compared to the richness of wildlife that thrives there. Nothingness is not what describes ANWR but the value of this video.
Chromobox 4 years ago
The problem with your dishonest claim is that this is the spot where the oil will be drilled, during the time of year when it will be pumped out, when there's nothing but the ice shown. During warm months it's nothing but mud flats after the ice melts. There's no "wildlife" nor anything "thriving" there, ever. It's empty, and dead, like your philosophy.
If you had an argument based in reality one assumes you'd use it, instead of the bunk you attempted.
itstruth 4 years ago
well, and when you show pictures of Polar Bears on small little icebergs and you claim global warming, when in total reality the picture is a lie that was cropped to make it appear that way, then what do you call it...
oh i know... you call it a "fact"
cowboycarl04 3 years ago
Seriously, you ever get tired of spewing lies?
I work in the North Slope every week of the year, and the area where drilling is supposed to take place (nearest town is Kaktovik on Barter Island), is a nearly flat barren wasteland where you are extremely lucky to spot 2-3 caribou over a 100 mile flight.
archer49d 3 years ago
"supporters of international terrorism (that's who you fund by stopping oil production in the designated 1/10000th sized fraction of ANWR)"
So it's terrorism to want to stop using oil and move on to a cleaner fuel?
"Less than 2000 acres would be drilled on."
It always starts small. first 2000 acres, then 4000, then 10 miles, then 50 miles.
WildlifeDen 4 years ago
I delete foul language. I accidentally removed your second comment. Add it again & I'll reply.
itstruth 4 years ago
Importing oil from Venezuela & Saudi Arabia funds terrorists.
You can't cite an example of what you're worried may occur. The whole field can be drilled from one small area. That spot will operate during winter months when it's frozen over and evacuate during warm months, making it nigh impossible to detect. Look around areas to the west of the planned location and you'll have trouble finding the original Prudhoe Bay fields. Drilled more than 50 years ago, they haven't grown as you worry.
itstruth 4 years ago
As for "cleaner fuel", I'm not very concerned about it. I know what the world was like before petroleum-powered conveyances, and I know what government may and what it may not do. Property rights, free markets, and tort law move things toward perfection in cleanliness and efficiency. Obey the Constitution and allow them to operate. It would be pleasant if my political opponents knew anything about the American political system, climatology, or justice.
itstruth 4 years ago
Doing so would save us billions of dollars a year in imported oil, add the tax revenues from profits and jobs, add at least $5 billion in lease payments and billions more from royalty payments, deprive terrorists of funding, and help Alaskan natives find gainful employment. The people who live there overwhelmingly support it. Any who argue against it in the face of these facts are either corrupt or bigoted.
itstruth 4 years ago
Just like their complaints about the damage the Alaskan oil pipeline would do to caribou were proven not only wrong, but the exact opposite of what happened: the caribou have prospered, expanding more than 6 fold since 1977. The same is true of their lies about polar bears: their numbers have quadrupled since the 1980's, rather than currently being endangered as they claim. There is no legitimate argument against Americans producing their own oil in their own country.
itstruth 4 years ago
58-59 of 100 Senators supported opening the designated area, but the minority filibustered it, in violation of Americans' rights and desires, and one of the key supporters of the filibuster, Joe Lieberman, pretended foe of Muslim terrorists. Less than 100 miles to the West of the field there is oil being produced for the last more than 50 years with not an iota of damage. And modern production has never had any environmental damage that the pagan Earth-worshipping types claim to worry about.
itstruth 4 years ago
This area was originally designated as being for oil production by the Democrats in December 1980, and is NOT designated as a wilderness area contrary to what some dishonest people claim. But the same party which took at least tens of millions of dollars from Communist China has by the corrupt and craven means of filibustering in the Senate blocked allowing the area to be used.
itstruth 4 years ago
Less than 2000 acres would be drilled on. The (unconstitutionally stolen from Alaska by Democrats in December 1980 AFTER they lost control of the Senate) ANWR is more than 19,000,000 acres, which is 29687.5 square miles. There are 640 acres per square mile. So barely 3 square miles on ice is what this is about. Ice sheets with no life of any form whatsoever, which melt every summer and during which time there will be no oil production nor evidence of there ever having been any production there.
itstruth 4 years ago
The response from you supporters of international terrorism (that's who you fund by stopping oil production in the designated 1/10000th sized fraction of ANWR) is typical of the totalitarian crowd. You don't know anything, but you don't want any information to be available to the Americans who you oppress with your dishonest actions. Keep your religion off our backs.
itstruth 4 years ago
poorest quality video i ever seen. ANWR is beautiful..KEPP IT THAY WAY & DELETE THIS VIDEO. disgrace
Arcticwolfette 4 years ago
I'm a republican (sort of) doing my senior thesis on keeping ANWR wild. And i live in Texas. you cannot imagine how difficult doing both of these things are, but i will do it because i believe in it.
Arctic-Keep it Wild!!
insanityconfirmed2 4 years ago
You must be an Exxon Oil fucker!
darklordaragona 4 years ago
Are you from Texas?
qwerty271984 5 years ago
drill it. the animals will find somewhere else to go.
blastingcaps 5 years ago
What a moronic attempt to justify drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! I worked in Prudhoe Bay for 8 years and have been in the refuge during the short but climatic summer, when the 150,000 strong Porcupine Caribou Herd is present, not to mention the bears, wolves and fox. Keep it wild!
pkerber 5 years ago
I can see how the uneducated and simple-minded would see this are devoit of significant life. Too bad its not the truth.. Idiots
F8L 5 years ago