Originally Posted by Epoch

Just an FYI so you know more about the ANWR issue... it will take 15 years before we can get ANY oil out of the area, and we would save more oil as a nation by changing the aerodynamics of our tires for the next 15 years than what we could ever drill out of there. The only reason why Bush wants to open that land up is that so he can set a precedent to open almost any protected wildland in the US. Smoke and mirrors my friend, and this administration is full of them environmentally. The ANWR is just a pawn for them to get a checkmate.

We have the means to, within the next 5 years, cut our dependance on foreign oil by half, and we can do it economically. The problem is that the oil and domestic automotive lobbies hold such strength with the current administration that there will be no positive change environmentally as long as Bush is in office.