A controversial land swap proposal could open portions of an Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling, dividing Alaska natives and stoking opposition from environmentalists seeking to protect the bears, moose and birds that live there.Supporters of the plan to exchange land in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, which lies just south of the more-famous Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, say they would like the plan to be approved by the administration of President George W. Bush before the election in November.
"The window is the election," Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young, a staunch backer of the plan, said at an Anchorage news conference. "We'd like to have an executive order out of the administration before they leave office."
With the rising cost of gas this could be a very positive step forward. Of course this article is slanted against the proposal. I am not. We should take advantage of OUR natural resources. The amount of oil we could drill could really help the price of gas. Any attempt to utilize our oil is a step in the right direction.
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The U.S. consumes 25 percent of the world's oil and holds only 3 percent of proven oil reserves. In fact, oil companies already possess more lands than they can drill--in the order of millions of acres of leases given to them by Bush. Believe me, I am in a position to know.
Stop believing the oil company drivel about how opening protected lands will lower our prices. Do you really think that is what these companies want?
Anybody with half a brain knows oil prices are set on a world scale and tiny proposals like this one would barely move prices at all. All allowing drilling in Yukon Flats would do is rob future generations of their proper inheritance to satisfy the short-term greed of big industry.
>>>The U.S. consumes 25 percent of the world's oil and holds only 3 percent of proven oil reserves.
The key word there is proven. We don't know what percentage of the world's oil we have because our oil companies are not allowed to look for it.
>>>Stop believing the oil company drivel about how opening protected lands will lower our prices. Do you really think that is what these companies want?
I don't know about the oil companies, but I know it is not what you and your lefty buddies want.
>>>Anybody with half a brain knows oil prices are set on a world scale and tiny proposals like this one would barely move prices at all.
I know it would be a small percent of the oil used worldwide. I also know a bunch of small steps in the right direction will make a difference.
One other thing. Quit talking about all the money the oil companies are making, when the government is raking in four or five times more through taxes.
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