Domestic Oil - The Truth.

This post has more to do with domestic oil issues than ethanol. But, it shows another example of manipulation by news and other media.

Have you heard of ANWR? It is the orange section in the map to the left, and it is called Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It is a topic of debate for drilling of oil. For wants to drill, obviously, and against do not wanting to save the land and wildlife from the effects of the drilling.

The proposed area is a 2000 acres (3.13 square miles) out of 19 million acres, in between 5 other already drilled oil driling facilities. Now, to understand the ridiculousness of it all, you have to have some perspective of what is really going on here.

The proposed ares is on the ANWR coastal plain, the square dot in the green area in the picture above with the site to its left and the 4 to the right. When the coalition opposing this drilling, consisting mostly of Democrats, liberals, and those that call themselves "greens", protest and start to talk about ANWR, they show pictures like these below.

Now, these pictures do show ANWR and its natural beauty. For all of these are from ANWR, but, look closely at these pictures. . .there is only 1 (the far right) that might be confused with a coastal region. But in fact, the only 1 in question is an inland waterway, probably seasonal at that. But in reality, the area in question for proposed drilling looks like...

The area that they are proposing is not necessarily a haven for the animals. It is more an "ice bridge" in the winter, and rarely used by the wildlife at all in the summer. In fact, we can look at the effect on the wildlife at a nearby drilling facility already in operation. Let's see how depleated the wildlife has become by looking at the pics below.

As you can see, the wildlife does not seem very upset with the production efforts of Prudhoe Bay drilling facility, which is a neighbor of the area that they are proposing to drill at. Oh, and by the way, Prudhoe Bay is responsible for 17% of United States Domestic Oil Production.

Now, why do you think that the Consortium, remember made primarily of Democrats, are lying about ANWR?

Many do not remember, but, there was a time previously that Al Gore said that the Government should work to articficially rasie the gas prices to $5.00 a gallon. Well, Al and his pals appear to have almost completed their goal.

Now if the drilling was allowed and it only made up 10% of Domestic oil, that is still be 3 Times the amount current production of ethanol makes up. Am I the only one that considers that peculiar?