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ANWR drilling no solution to gasoline costs, Kerry says
adn.com ^ | March 31, 2004 | LIZ RUSKIN

Posted on 03/31/2004 11:41:20 AM PST by KQQL

Edited on 07/07/2004 4:49:14 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

WASHINGTON -- While blaming President Bush for the high price of gasoline, his Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry, on Tuesday reiterated his opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, saying it is no solution.

"We deserve an administration that doesn't fake it to the American people and pretend that somehow by drilling in the Alaska wildlife refuge we can deal with the problems of America," Kerry, D-Mass., told university students in San Diego. "We can't provide the supply of oil America needs from the Alaska wildlife refuge or from any other source in the United States, because we only have 3 percent of the world's oil reserves."


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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 2004; 2004election; alaska; anwr; carbontax; dumbassalert; election2004; energy; gasprices; hoffa; issues; jameshoffa; jamesphoffa; jimmyhoffa; johnkerry; kenyanbornmuzzie; kerry; lurch; methane; oil; opec; petroleum; teamsters
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To: marron
Higher oil prices help make alternative technologies feasible.

Oil has been cheap so far, even now. That's the problem with alternative energy. It just costs more. When oil costs that much, we'll already be in trouble.

81 posted on 03/31/2004 1:01:45 PM PST by RightWhale (Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
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To: HarryCaul
It's not extraneous. See the title of the thread.

The title of the thread makes no mention of what you're implicitly talking about (i.e. long term solution to our national energy supply). It talks about gasoline costs.

Are you asserting that allowing drilling in more domestic sources would have no effect on gasoline costs?

82 posted on 03/31/2004 1:04:01 PM PST by Dr. Frank fan
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To: N. Theknow
When we were building the pads at Prudhoe we excavated the Sag River riverbed in the winter. It was 40 below and we ran the equipment under lightplants day and night. In the spring when the river was flowing again, it just filled up the borrow pits no problem. The roads were built while everything was frozen the same way. Ecological impact was nil. When the animals came out in the spring, they didn't seem to notice any difference at all.
83 posted on 03/31/2004 1:06:54 PM PST by RightWhale (Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
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To: N. Theknow
Where are you getting your information

First of all, I'm here in Alaska and info dribbles in from all sides. We don't have any use for hype. The other thing is the Peak Oil theory, which might be interesting, and it is after all only a theory. Search on Peak Oil. The theory seems preposterous at first, but if you follow some of the links you might find something of interest.

84 posted on 03/31/2004 1:10:11 PM PST by RightWhale (Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
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To: KQQL
Kerry: Supply has nothing to do with price. Everything you know about economics is wrong.
85 posted on 03/31/2004 1:12:05 PM PST by bondjamesbond (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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To: Donaeus
bttt
86 posted on 03/31/2004 1:25:11 PM PST by Donaeus ( Change the world, not en mass, but by planting freedom in one heart/mind at a time.)
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ANWR ANYONE?


87 posted on 03/31/2004 1:33:48 PM PST by KQQL (@)
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To: Dr. Frank fan
I would assert ANWR would have no appreciable affect on gasoline prices, sure. Perhaps a tiny effect, if any, in the short run, but next to none in the long run.

It's just not that big a percentage to add to the overall flow.

It's worth doing, but it's not any sort of solution to gasoline prices.

88 posted on 03/31/2004 1:34:23 PM PST by HarryCaul
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I BET IF RUSSIA STILL OWNED AK< THEY WOULD HAVE ALREADY DUG UP ANWR FOR OIL and GAS.

89 posted on 03/31/2004 1:42:06 PM PST by KQQL (@)
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To: KQQL
Those polygon shapes are characteristic of permafrost. It would be difficult to damage them in winter, but in summer the vegetative layer can be compressed leading to loss of thermal insulation and next thing you know your wheel tracks sink into a bog.
90 posted on 03/31/2004 1:46:03 PM PST by RightWhale (Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
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To: Army Air Corps
Oil and fuels can be made from anything.
Oil is a renewable resource.
http://www.kantor.com/useful/oil.pdf
91 posted on 03/31/2004 1:48:00 PM PST by Chewbacca (I think I will stay single. Getting married is just so 'gay'.)
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To: RightWhale
YO KERRY !


92 posted on 03/31/2004 1:48:27 PM PST by KQQL (@)
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To: KQQL
Mr. Kerry, drilling in Anwar is a lot better solution to the 'problem' of gas prices than crying on your knees to the Saudis.
93 posted on 03/31/2004 1:49:47 PM PST by MEGoody (Kerry - isn't that a girl's name? (Conan O'Brian))
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To: KQQL
I'd say those who oppose developing ANWR's resources are the same who opposed Alaska's coal development back when Alaska had just been purchased. Alaska's development was frozen in the late 1800s and remains frozen for the most part unless it is the existing industrialists who will get the action.
94 posted on 03/31/2004 1:54:46 PM PST by RightWhale (Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
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To: MEGoody
Don't you know Kerry will never fight a war for oil...

95 posted on 03/31/2004 1:57:41 PM PST by KQQL (@)
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To: KQQL
ANWR IS A SOLUTION!More drilling in other areas and the construction of new refineries are needed.It is time to to run rough shod over the environmentalists.IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY AN EXECUTIVE ORDER TO GET THIS GOING IS NEEDED!!
96 posted on 03/31/2004 2:11:32 PM PST by INSENSITIVE GUY
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To: RightWhale
LOL!! Only months is we only used oil from ANWR all at once. But that's not it at all. ANWR can suppliment the US oil needs for decades. Add up to 735,000 jobs as well not to mention 27% of the total US oil reserves is in ANWR. These Commie liberal appeasers made the same arguments about Prudhoe Bay. They were wrong then and they are wrong again now. This is typical liberalism. Hate america, hate business, hate prosperity, hate self reliance, and hate humanity.
97 posted on 03/31/2004 2:27:48 PM PST by Sorcerer3 (For the life of me I just can't understand why they hate me at democraticunderground.com)
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To: KQQL
Granted America may not be Saudi Arabia, but is what is wrong with drilling for more oil? I don't think John F. Seinfeld really understands what makes America great.
98 posted on 03/31/2004 2:29:32 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: RightWhale
There are a lot of folks who can't understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in America.

Well, there's a very simple answer. Nobody bothered to check the oil.

We just didn't know we were getting low. The reason for that is purely geographical.

All our oil is in Alaska, Texas, California, and Oklahoma.

But all our dipsticks are in Washington, DC.

I'm not sure but there may be a spelling error in the last sentence.

99 posted on 03/31/2004 2:38:54 PM PST by B4Ranch (Most Of Us Are Wasting Rights Other Men Fought and Died For!)
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To: Sorcerer3
Add up to 735,000 jobs

That's hype, not permanent jobs. We built the TransAlaska Pipeline with 4000 people over 2 years and there other tasks afterwards leading up to completion in a few more years that didn't have so many workers. Granted that there were a lot of jobs, but most jobs lasted a couple of weeks. Add in the steel workers in Asia that made the pipe itself and the ship workers that brought it over and the truckers that carried it all up and down Alaska and it still won't add up to the hype.

100 posted on 03/31/2004 2:39:10 PM PST by RightWhale (Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
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