"Just received this from my 85 year old grandma. I'm trying to find something online to prove this isn't correct. Either way, it is so offensive when I'm one of the green, liberal, democrats they are talking about." -Kelly
Ahhh... So it's the democrats who are raising gas prices. Thanks for these facts, Kelly's grandma!
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>> FIRST: do you know what ANWR is?
>> ANWR = Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
>> Now? A comparison
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>> (it?s in the ?ANWR Coastal Plain?)
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>> TALK ABOUT ANWR
>> ?and they are right? these ARE photographs of ANWR
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>> ISN?T ANWR BEAUTIFUL? WHY SHOULD WE DRILL HERE (AND DESTROY) THIS
>> BEAUTIFUL PLACE?
>> Do you remember the map?
>> The map showed that the proposed drilling area is in the ANWR
>> Coastal Plain
>> WHAT?S GOING ON HERE?
>> THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE?
>> THAT IS NOT WHERE THEY ARE WANTING TO DRILL!
>> THIS IS WHAT THE PROPOSED EXPLORATION AREA ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IN
>> THE WINTER
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>> AND THIS IS WHAT IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IN THE SUMMER
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>> HERE ARE A COUPLE SCREEN SHOTS FROM GOOGLE EARTH
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>> BARREN WASTELAND.
>> OH? AND THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE EFFECT ON THE
>> LOCAL WILDLIFE?
>> HERE IS A PHOTO (SHOT DURING THE SUMMER) OF THE
>> ?DEPLETED WILDLIFE? SITUATION CREATED BY DRILLING AROUND PRUDHOE BAY
>> *?
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>> HERE?S THAT SAME SPOT DURING THE WINTER.
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>> HEY, THIS BEAR SEEMS TO REALLY HATE THE PIPELINE NEAR PRUDHOE BAY *?
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>> NOW, WHY DO YOU THINK THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE LYING ABOUT ANWR?
>> REMEMBER WHEN ALGORE SAID THAT
>> THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD WORK TO ARTIFICIALLY RAISE GAS PRICES
>> TO $5.00 A GALLON?
>> WELL?
>> AL GORE AND HIS FELLOW DEMOCRATS HAVE ALMOST REACHED THEIR GOAL! NOW
>> THAT YOU KNOW THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN LYING,
>> WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
>> YOU CAN START BY FORWARDING THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW?
>> SO THAT THEY WILL KNOW THE TRUTH AND VOTE.
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Snopes is still investigating.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/anwr.asp
Whatever Snopes finds, theres a few important things to note:
1) As we all know Republicans had 6 years of total control over government and didn't do anything in regards to ANWR. To lay this totally on Democrats is another Republican cop out. And that line at the end about Al Gore claiming that we should inflate gas to $5 a gallon: pure bull.
2) John McCain himself is currently opposed to drilling in ANWR.
3) The oil in ANWR, even the most generous estimates, is simply not that plentiful. It would take 5-10 years to get it online and into world supply. Whatever came out of there would reduce our oil imports but only a percent or two. Plus, we don't have any more refinery capacity anyway, which means that it would simply sit in the pipeline and not actually help with gas prices.
4)Suppose we drill and add more oil to world supply, thus (very very slighty) reducing the price point of gas. What's to stop other nations from cutting back their own production in order to get back to the previous, profitable equilibrium? Nothing, thats what.
The bottom line is that ANWR is no magic bullet. Drilling there may be necessary but to claim that it will solve all, or even some, of our energy problems is pure delusion.
Adding to the above comment
4.2) What all these Third Reicher's seem to think is that is once all this oil is pulled up that it's magically going to stay here in this country, somehow translating into 30 cents a gallon gas.
The oil companies don't give two shits about AMERICA, American Pride, The American Economy, NASCAR or Toby Keith. All the oil that gets pulled up goes on the WORLD market, Conserva-tards, meaning the FREE MARKET.
If you want cheap domestic-only oil , might I suggest you move to Venezuela, or don't you hate it when "BIG GOVERNMENT" comes to help you out?
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