That's a interesting point. The USA needs to guzzle petroleum to support the US gov't incorporated national interests and preemptive wars of the future with major support from its consuming public.
> John Freeman wrote: > I completely agree that ANWR oil will not help most of us, and that > increasing CAF requirements, and/or other conservation measures, would be > much more effective. But I think the American public is just being sold the > ANWR drilling plan as a way to "foster independence from foreign oil". That > is just a palatable spin to convince us itās a good idea. > > Don't look at it as a way to incrementally decrease foreign oil purchases, > look at it as a way to lock in a local supply for "critical" needs in a few > years, when maybe our foreign partners can't or won't sell us what we want. > Then 1 million barrels a day will look pretty good, when the line at the > pump includes Air Force One, military vehicles, ships, aircraft, maybe > police and fire...you know, you can make the list, and you can bet most of > us will NOT be on it. > > So I see ANWR oil fitting in nicely to help fill the "needs" of the > government, NOT as a way to increase retail supply or reduce retail prices. > But people might not support it if they thought that was the case. > >President Bush clearly believes that drilling in the Arctic National > >Wildlife Reserve is a good way to foster independence from foreign oil. > >According to FOX NEWS, the President recently said "We could recover > >more than 10 billion barrels of oil from a small corner of ANWR ... We > >can now reach all of ANWR's oil by drilling on just 2,000 acres. > >Developing a small section of ANWR would not only create new jobs but > >would reduce our dependence on foreign oil by up to a million barrels a > >day." _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
