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Originally Posted by Litflynt912
I am the biggest eco freak around but if drilling in Alaska was a sure fire shot of getting oil to come down..
I would be the first one to pump!!!!
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Bush's Dept. of Energy folks estimate that drilling Anwar will drop the price of gas at the pump by about 1 penny. And it will take about 10 years for this to take effect.
So if your goal is to reduce the price of oil from $3.49 to $3.48 a gallon in the year 2018, then drilling Anwar is the answer to your dreams.
With that said, there are ways to drill Anwar that will minimize it's impact to just a very, very tiny fraction of a percent of the entire refuge. Under those conditions, up to 88% of the oil under Anwar can be extracted. I don't have any problem with tightly controlled drilling that is limited to just .005% of the Anwar wildlife refuge being impacted.
But the answer to lowering the price of gas is not Anwar.