ANWR

Gale Norton, Secretary of the Interior and one of the main proponents of drilling in ANWR retired this week. She plans to retire in the mountains of the west but has said that she's glad she is rich enough to be able to live far away from the annoying oil derricks. Ain't that some shit?

I've always been perplexed by supporters of drilling in ANWR. It's not that I'm a true bleeding heart environmentalist but rather that the benefits, by far, do not outweigh the negatives.

Mean value estimates of the amount of oil are 10.4 billion barrels. The US burns 20 million barrels a day. So, drilling in ANWR would only give us 520 days of oil. To me, thats not enough oil to warrant drilling in a national refuge area.

But then again, my campaign contributers aren't the oil industry.

Tags: Politics, ANWR, Oil, & Environment