Fwd: [at-l] A.N.W.R. VOTE - conservation issue - not trail

[sloetoe@yahoo.com (Sloetoe)]

--- Jim and/or Ginny Owen <spiriteagle99@hotmail.com> wrote: 
> although I still object to the tone of Rami's original
post/press release.  Incitement to emotional stampede never sits
well with me.
### This was the goal of the copy writer, not Rami.

> But the fact still remains that sometime in the future it will
be drilled. That's not a guess or an opinion, just a statement
of fact that neither of us has to like or agree with.
### Jim, you know better. It is not a "statement of fact" but a
question of economics. And as long as oil/petrol prices don't
climb, and the US government fails to charge market rates for
access, the ANWR (and all other federal properties with
recoverable wealth) will be subject to exploitation. And the
MOMENT that those resources no longer present an opportunity for
profitable recovery, phwip!, interest will vanish.

### The ANWR has not *really* been subject to exploitation
because the recovery technology (and associated costs) stems
from that developed for Prudhoe Bay, and was too high without
being subsidized. Time has marched on, however, and while the
costs have decreased (thanks in no small part to Big Oil
participation in Antarctic exploration), the recoverable oil
estimates have jumped -- both of these contribute to the current
push. And truly enough, the push won't go away without some
other, more accessible reserves being discovered (deep water
Gulf of Mexico natural gas) or a backstop technology being
brought to market.

### So at this point, if you don't favor ANWR drilling, you
should be supporting its prohibition, OR supporting research
dollars to potential energy sources which would substitute for
ANWR oil, and pray for marketable development and deployment of
same.

### Thus endeth todayth priceth theory lethon...
Sloetoe Friedman



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