Isn't it time we had a roll call vote on ANWR?

After Clinton vetoed a bill allowing us to drill in ANWR in 1995, the debate has continued. Republicans constantly being stopped by the Democrats, who are beholden to the liberals and Green lobby.


Only 2,000 acres of the 10-02 Area are to be used for the permanent infrastructure -- the pipelines, oil wells, etc. The10-02 Area is neither a refuge nor wilderness and definitely not scenic despite constant claims to the contrary by the Green Lobby.





The United States Geological Survey has estimated ANWR holds a mean estimate of 10.4 billion barrels of recoverable oil. This would be the equivalent of a "Prudhoe Bay II."


Within a few years, an additional million barrels a day could be flowing to West Coast refineries. And if President Clinton hadn't vetoed ANWR legislation in 1995, that oil would be flowing today." ANWR's development can help to lessen our dependence on foreign oil; so also would the careful opening of other protected onshore and offshore sites.

Isn't it time we had a roll call vote on ANWR?
Of course we need a roll-call vote on ANWR. Any senator who votes against ANWR may claim to care what you're paying for gasoline, but doesn't actually care and has his or her head in the sand. The superpowers of the 21st century will be the ones who provide for their own needs at or near energy independence. America needs a plan so that we can stop being beholden to the likes of Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for our fuel needs.





We need to open drilling in ANWR; in currently banned offshore areas on both the Atlantic and the Pacific Coasts; AND the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. We need to explore drilling in other onshore areas of the U.S., most notably in the highly promising Bakken Formation in North Dakota and Montana. AND we need to quicken the quest for alternative energy sources to be phased in at the same time as our ability to drill for the oil that's domestically recoverable declines in future decades.





America's ongoing strength as a country depends on our ability to remain world leaders in providing a full portfolio of energy availability for our great multifaceted economy -- NOT to lay waste to that same economy which would destroy countless lives and jobs and take our greatest contributions to the world off the table. The time to act on a new multi-pronged Energy Production Revolution in this country has arrived -- we are being pressed upon to act, and we need to be fully up to this new national challenge.
Reply:Sure. But the answer will still be no. Instead of drilling new holes. Let's lead the planet in research, developement ,and innovation of alternate energies.
Reply:Theree are literally trillions of barrels of oil still sitting untouched under Texas, Oklahoma, Nevada, and Arizona. Why go all the way to Alaska?
Reply:Just wondering what the motive is behind the veto.
Reply:I say no drilling. We need to be FORCED to come up with alternate sources of energy. It won't happen until we are forced to.
Reply:DIG, DIG DEEP, DIG DEEPER, DON'T STOP DIGGING.
Reply:Why continue to use a resource as dirty and inefficient as oil. Sure we would have oil for now, but what about a few years from now, then what? Maybe instead of trying to suck every last drop of oil out of this planet we should try to find an alternative energy source. It makes absolutely no sense to drill in such untouched land like Alaska. We need to at least keep some nature on this planet. And with these gas prices rising, it will hopefully force the people on this planet to find new technology.