[Mr. K]

How about you DRILL IN ANWAR and send more oil down the pipeline?

I meant what did we buy Alaska for? To look at it because it is so pretty and ‘pristine’?

[thackney]

just a friendly note:

It is ANWR, not ANWAR.

Anwar is this guy:

ANWR is this place:

More info at: http://www.anwr.org

[Ben Ficklin]

"How about you DRILL IN ANWAR"

They are going to drill the Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea rather than ANWR. There is more oil in the Chukchi Sea than ther was/is in the Gulf of Mexico. Unfortunately, Shell had to send their drill ships back to Korea for repair after their first season in the Chukchi so they won't return until the 2014 drilling season.

Keep in mind, in ANWR Alaska gets 90% of the royalty and the feds get only 10%. Offshore(beyond 3 miles) the feds get 100% of the royalty. Unless Murkowski can somehow get "royalty sharing" implemented in Alaska. TX, LA, MS and AL were given royalty sharing in 2006 and Virginia's willingness to allow offshore drilling there is predicated on royalty sharing for Virginia.