ANWR+Anti-drilling

WE DO NOT SUPPORT DRILLING FOR OIL IN THE ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE



Drilling in ANWR is only a quick fix: Like John Kerry said, "We have to invent out way out of this". Drilling in ANWR may seem like a great idea to decrease our dependence on foreign oil; however, what happens when all the oil runs out? Instead of focusing on drilling, we should be putting our time and money into developing alternative forms of energy (ie: solar power and wind power). This way we can decrease our dependence on oil in general. Another benefit of focusing on other forms of energy is the jobs it would create. One of the main arguments is that oil drilling will make jobs for the people of Alaska, but __why not put those people to work developing ways to make solar powered cars?__ This would create a real fix to our oil dependency problem, as apposed to solving it for a short term affect.

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Once You Start Drilling, What else are you going to let slide? U.S. Oil Companies already have permission to drill in millions of unexplored acres, but there is a push now to drill in one area where they don't have permission: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). A recent U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) assessment says there is "considerable uncertainty regarding both the size and quality of the oil resources that exist in ANWR." EDF economist Gernot Wagner explained to me why drilling won't lead to lower oil and gas prices. What's mainly driving high oil prices today, he said, is increased demand. And the increase, in large part, is due to the newly mobile millions around the world who've been lifted out of poverty in the last few decades. __Drilling will not reduce fuel prices, and will not make us more energy independent__. The only way to achieve these goals is to reduce our dependence on oil – foreign or domestic – through fuel economy, and a cap on carbon emissions. A carbon cap will spur innovation and shift us into a green energy economy.

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