Arctic Oil Gets an Administration Gusher

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By Dana Milbank
Tuesday, December 13, 2005; A02


Interior Secretary Gale Norton, campaigning to win oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, had the urgency of a saleswoman falling short of her monthly quota.

"ANWR would supply every drop of petroleum for Florida for 29 years," she told a friendly audience at the Heritage Foundation yesterday, "New York for 34 years, Illinois for 43 years, California for 16 years or New Hampshire for 315 years."

So how many years would ANWR's oil keep the whole country fueled up?

Norton balked at the question. "When you look at it for the whole country, you really get somewhat of a deceiving picture," the secretary answered. She said that's "not the way this operates," and said the question "assumes that unless a source of energy is going to meet all of America's needs then it's not worth looking at."
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and it would stay ruined forever.

"Selling" us a bill of goods.

"When you look at it for the whole country, you really get somewhat of a deceiving picture," the secretary answered.

In other words, listen to my deception, not reality. After all, that's the way we Bushies work.

And she couldn't even handle their questions. Sorta sounds like ANWR drilling is a bad idea.

If anyone thinks that ANWR oil is heading south, they are clueless. It would sail west and be sold to China.

After voting to drill there, a Democrat in the house or the Senate put forth another bill/ammendment that would require all oil from ANWR to be used in this country, a shrewd last ditch manuever that may make drilling less palatable to some.

The ammendment or bill passed overwhelmingly because even republicans had to vote for it since their argument was that we needed to drill to secure more US oil for America.

Someone referred to this when asking Norton a question about how this would affect the World Oil Market when ANWR oil had to be used in the US. She did not say anything to make it sound like that was not still the case.

I'm glad to hear of that minor victory. It seems that these guys can just run roughshod over us at times.

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