Arctic Smackdown!
Senate blocks attempt to allow drilling in Alaska refuge
"Destroying this wilderness will do very little to reduceFinally someone stood up to that old man from Alaska. It is so freaking cold up there, that I am sure it is numbed his head to the beauty around him. It was definitely some BS attempting to place the drilling provision in the defense spending bill. For now it is all over, and Alaska can rest.
energy costs nor does it do very much for oil independence."
posted by Jonathan @ 2:20 PM
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My friend Robert did the math, using the most recent estimates -- this will make you feel better:
"7 billion[ANWR estimate]/20 million[Daily US Consumption] = 350 days worth of oil. So Alaska would provide a year of oil. (That's assuming we used 100% to make motor gasoline. Ususally 45% percent of each barrel is used for motor gasoline. The rest is used for distillate fuel oil, jet fuel, residual fuel and other oils. Realistically this would be 6 months.)
Now factor in that Petroleum Reserve I spoke about. As of February 2004, it stored about 645 million barrels of oil in underground salt caverns along the Gulf of Mexico.
645 million/20 million = 32 days. So add another month. (Again, assuming 100% and that we got really desperate and didn't fly any planes.)
So max, we have a year and a month stocked away if we started drilling in Alaska. Who needs to research energy sources when we have that much oil available?"
It's good to have nerd-friends who'll crunch numbers like that.
And I need to find you a new word to replace "smackdown." It's a great word, but twice in two posts? Come on Jon, utilize your Masters-level vocabulary!
Would you please start blogging again? I have nothing to read while procrastinating!
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