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July 06 Drill awayRegarding off shore and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil drilling, I say: Go ahead. The area of ANWR the companies want to drill has been compared to the size of a postage stamp on a football field or a single character on a full-page newspaper, relative to the wilderness preserve. with respect to off shore drilling, we could put 40 to 50 platforms in the Gulf and southern Atlantic and Pacific oceans without being unsightly. The arguments that liberals always make is environmental, but when was the last time there was a catastrophic oil spill from an existing platform or an oil well? The naysayers are ignoring 21st-century technology that minimizes land clearing on the surface. If platforms are unsafe, why did Hurricane Katrina and other recent hurricanes not cause a spill at any of them? At the same time, we need to loosen restrictions and build more domestic refineries. When was the last time we had a catastrophic spill at one of them? Oil in transit, via ship and barge, is a greater risk for tragedy than those listed above. But that is not what the left wants us to hear or read. I think an agreement could be worked out that fixes the price of oil from ANWR at, for example, $100/barrel for a determined number of years, while prohibiting oil companies from increasing exports from other domestic sources. TrackbacksThe trackback URL for this entry is: http://writersdesk.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E6B12F4D805BB49C!441.trak Weblogs that reference this entry
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