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...union of these two issues has not always been a harmonious one. The four-year wrangling over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is a case in point. Despite ANWR??s limited oil reserves, many Republicans viewed drilling as a question of national security: a year of our own oil was better than buying it from the Saudis. Democrats and a few Republicans wanted to leave it untouched and support cleaner energies. A similar divide emerged in the 2005 Energy Bill. Trumpeting the legislation’s promise to reduce America’s oil dependency...
...majority of Americans recognize the beauty of our country, appreciate its biology, and are glad that there are areas such as ANWR where beauty and biology can exist unspoiled in perpetuity. A recent Gallup poll indicates that 53 percent of Americans are opposed to drilling in ANWR??who are opposed to putting a price tag on nature. There is not a price per kilowatt-hour at which Old Faithful should be converted into a geothermal energy plant. There is no price for stone at which Mount Rushmore should be quarried. There is no price for exotic animals...
...write to correct some misconceptions in James M. McElligott’s “A Case for Opening ANWR?? (Opinion, April 17). He states that according to the latest estimates—and they are estimates—there are 7.7 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil in ANWR. He goes on to note that this would be the equivalent of “our entire domestic oil use for well over a year...
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