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Facts about ANWAR Oil Drilling and Refinery Usage |
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by Chris Cornell
Coastal Journal contributor
According to the latest USGS Alaska Wildlife Reserve survey, the best case senerio would lead to an extraction of 16 billion barrels of oil. That’s 2.11 years worth of oil, assuming we could get it all out of the ground, which never quite happens. Once the ANWR oil reached peak production, the benefit would provide a 50 cent drop in the barrel price. That benefit would last for about 3 years. A report issued by the Energy Information Administration said that if congress gave the go-ahead, drilling went smoothly and peak production was reached on schedule by around 2025, the result would be that the US could import 66 percent of its oil from abroad, rather than 70 percent. These figures indicate that ANWR drilling would not significantly relieve our dependence on foreign oil.
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Winter Heating and Gas Crisis: Send Your Stories to Washington |
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by Tom Allen
Summer in Maine has just begun, but it is the coming winter that occupies the thoughts of Maine families and small businesses. My Congressional office has received hundreds of calls from Maine families and businesses who are desperate and scared about how they will survive this winter. Gasoline, heating oil and diesel prices are rising at a record rate, and by the time winter arrives they are likely to be even higher. Maine families and small businesses will be forced to make difficult decisions about heating their homes, putting gas in their cars and feeding their families. They need and deserve help from those benefiting most from the current energy crisis.
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Can we work together to help? |
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Even though the sun is shining and the flags are waving in a warm, humid breeze, soon enough the cold winter winds will howl and many, if not most of us, will be looking for a way to heat our homes economically. There will be those of us who can’t do it, because they are on fixed or low incomes, or because they were one of the many who lost a job due to the downturn of the economy.
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