Posted on 04/30/2002 9:38:46 AM PDT by gubamyster
The problem with most articles about America's dependence on foreign oil is that the author's are often woefully ignorant. Some estimates indicate that the tar sands region in northern Alberta could produce enough oil to sustain the current level of consumption in all of North America for the next 500 years. The problem is that it isn't terribly cost-effective to get most of the stuff out of the ground.
Even if ANWR were opened tomorrow, the U.S. would still import oil from the cheapest sources all over the globe. And you can be sure that the high cost of U.S. labor and a strong U.S. dollar will make ANWR oil far more costly to extract than oil from anywhere else in the world.
I am of the opinion that this decision could be easily reversed.
And we wouldn't even need to redefine what the meaning of the word 'is', is.
WRONG! Clinton put it off limits as a campaign cash pay off to Riadi (sp?). Guess who has the 2nd largest reserve... Indonesia!
About ten years ago the company was an active supporter in a grassroots campaign to keep one of the large big-box stores (I think it was Wal-Mart) out of Vermont. The state has always had a reputation for being extremely protective of its rural image (often to the detriment of their own financial well-being).
One of the newspapers did a little research and found out that even as they were opposing the construction of the state's first Wal-Mart store, Ben & Jerry's had already signed an agreement with Wal-Mart giving them the exclusive right to operate ice cream stands within Wal-Mart stores in Vermont once they did get built.
Clinton put 68 billion tons of America’s cleanest-burning coal, located in Utah, off-limits for mining, ostensibly for environmental reasons ........
.....Now power companies must import clean-burning coal, some from mines owned by Indonesia’s Lippo Group, the heavy contributor to Clinton, whose decision about Utah’s coal vastly increased the value of Lippo’s coal.
ostensibly = supposedly = appears to be (but not really)
When I lived in ALaska, I don't remember to many people living that far north, heck for that matter, I don't remember any people WANTING to live that far north! After passing the arctic circle, (Which in well below the ANWR site), there was no desire for myself to even go exploring farther. 
10. Rocky Roadkill
9. Cholesterol Chunk
8. Fudge Wapner
7. It Came from Wolf Blitzer's Beard
6. Contraceptive Crunch
5. Last Will and Testa-Mint
4. Marv Sherbert
3. Richard Simmons' Fruit Swirl
2. Michael Jackson's White Chocolate
1. Cookies 'n' Crack
And as is the case with most hard core lefties, capatilism is fine for them, but not for you. The rules and dictates of socialism do not apply to them, but to the "lessors."
10. Oprah Mocha
9. Raspberry Rash
8. Norieggnog
7. Cholesterol Chip
6. Zsa Zsa Gaboreo
5. Tiny Filaments O'Tungsten
4. Uninhibited by Cher
3. Stuff-Found-in-Ben-&-Jerry's-Pockets
2. Bus Depot Fudge
1. Hitler Ripple
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