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Originally posted by Paul Victorey
Actually, there's not very much oil in the Alaskan refuge; the total amount of oil in Alaska would be about one year's worth of oil at the current rate of consumption, and the economically feasible oil is only about half that (the other half would cost more to extract than it could be sold for). So all this debate is over 6 months worth of oil -- not a trivially tiny amount, but not enough to really justify the operation.
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Those certainly aren't the figures quoted by the American Petroleum Institute. There are plenty of companies chomping at the bit to extract that trivial amount.
Of course seeing how I work in the Energy Industry I will reserve my opinion as to whether or not we should drill in Alaska, you probably know what it is anyway.
We have three choices as of now Oil, Coal or Nuclear Energy. Personally I think they are all viable and think we are foolish to not be using them all for their strong points.