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Drilling in ANWR is Americas best hope
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The United States imported 9,163,000 barrels of oil per day in 2010. Of that amount 4,885,000 barrels are imported from countries that belong to the OPEC oil cartel. (Petroleum Statistics) The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is an organization consisting of twelve countries that have formally agreed to fix prices and dictates sales rules involving the export of oil to non-member countries. In order to lessen our dependence on OPEC oil, the United States should begin drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska. The oil reserves in ANWR are estimated to contain more than twice as much oil as the state of Texas. (Energy) Drilling for these resources will help the United States by decreasing our dependence on OPEC oil, creating jobs, and increasing tax revenue. All of these goals can be accomplished in an environmentally friendly way, on two thousand acres of land that have already been held aside for energy exploration.
The Arctic National Wildlife refuge was created in 1980 as part of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. ANWR consists of 19 million acres with 17.5 million acres declared wilderness area and 1.5 million acres that have been set aside for energy exploration in the future, but may only be opened to exploration with the approval of Congress. The area of ANWR that would be available for exploration would be less than ten percent of the entire area of ANWR. Of those 1.5 million acres, only 2000 acres will be available for above ground structures and roads. (Clark) There are estimated to be more than 10.2 billion barrels of recoverable oil in ANWR. (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1002 Area, Petroleum Assessment, 1998, Including Economic Analysi...
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