Cycloptichorn wrote:
Note that the oil in ANWR never goes away; and that the need for oil will never diminish either. Therefore, the longer we leave it in the ground, the greater its' eventual value to America. Also, the longer we wait, the greater our ability to extract it without causing damage to the environment.
Think if it as a savings account
Cycloptichorn
It seems I recall you saying before that oil will become obsolete?
In any case, I agree with your above statement to a point, however, ANWR may be more crucial to us now than later. In 20 or 30 years when ANWR might be played out if predictions and estimates pan out, we hopefully will have perfected other alternatives. If we haven't perfected other alternatives by then, I think ANWR may be too little too late by then anyway. And the fact remains that even if we begin drilling tomorrow, it would be a number of years before production could come on stream and be ramped up. Nothing is proven there, as the estimates are only predictions of various reserves correlated with various probabilities. By the time Democrats finally give up on their silly prohibitions on developing this resource, and I believe they will finally see the handwriting on the wall, it could be too late.
And even if you wish to preserve the resource, it would make sense to do some drilling to better identify what may exist there, and then hold it as a petroleum reserve if that is what you want to convince your politicians to do.
