Do you think oil should be drilled for in Alaska?

Question

Do you think oil should be drilled for in Alaska?

Answer 1

i think the environmental risks outweigh the benefits of oil....

in all seriousness....look at our society now...4$ a gallon and finally attention is being paid to new technologies and new practices that will help us curb our addiction to oil....so if we drill in Alaska and get 20 years of "cheap" oil then when that runs out we will be back here in a worse situation because the rest of the world would have flew right by us...we are all ready loosing ground to the nations like brazil and some european ones that have leap frogged us so we might as well try and kick the oil habit now and follow like hte rest of the world is...

yes it may help now but in the long run it could very well doom us....on top of the environmental risks associated with it

Answer 2

We have been drilling and pumping oil up here in Alaska since 1977. The wildlife are just fine with the pipeline. We simply don't have enough oil to satisfy all the needs and wants of the entire USA. Gas today in Palmer was $4.46 and diesel was $5.46.

Answer 3

You must be a North American, that is the reason why Alaska---polution or get rich?  Say where you from, and who is asking.  e.g. (MY)

OLD/M from S'pore   Now at 2215 on 10/07/08(Thurs)

Yours is Wed?

Now everyone is looking for OIL Deposit Area to drill.  Middle East will end in a 50-100 years timing and Brunei &  Indonesia around 50-70 years.  

Alaska is America and America needs OIL now, so drill and leave Iran & Iraq alone.

Another top deposit area is the South China Sea region close to Taiwan, near China & Japan. It is estimated the oil there in the sea  will last 600 years. So the 3 countries are all eyeing for it and recently China & Japan just signed  to do join exploration.  Now is what will happen to Taiwan?  Is there a share for them.

Why make OIL so valuable and not WATER?  Without either one around, Who die first?   Think hard --- can oil be water and water be oil, one day.    .

Answer 4

I live in Alaska.

The ANWR drilling area in question is small - if ANWR were a regulation foot ball field - the drill area would be smaller than a postage stamp.  

The pipeline is almost finished upgrades than will let it move almost 5 million barrels a day.......... right now it only send 340,000 barrels a day thanks to the Democrats.  Consider that an off shore drilling rig only provides 3,000 barrels a day.  With a little more drilling in Alaska the pipeline can send the equilivent of over 1300 off shore drilling platform outputs to the USA.  And it would not take ten years like the Demorcatic politicians are claiming.

Our choice is to send big $$ to our enemies in the Middle East - or - use our own oil and tell them where to go.  

Not a hard choice to make people.

Hope this helps

Answer 5

Why? To reduce the price of oil and provide greater independence for the US from foreign oil sources.

There is a problem with that. The amount of oil available is relatively inconsequential compared with known fields throughout the world so would likely not affect prices (oil is a global commodity). Also, if we started exploring today in every possible US place (Alaska, off the Florida and California coasts, Yellowstone(!)) it would be about 20 years before any of that oil reached a gas pump. What will the global economy look like then? I have no idea but I don't think it's worth destroying the remains of Alaska and the oceans for a short-term solution to a very long-term problem.

Our salvation from high oil prices and dependence on foreign sources is to stop using the stuff. There is no other way.

Answer 6

Yes but just to a certain extent

Answer 7

Oil is already drilled in AK, but I assume you mean in ANWR.  Right now they are already drilling on the outer edges of that area, but cannot drill in the refuge.

I know that people think the wildlife are seriously affected by drilling operations, but I think it's funny in winter when you fly over the pipeline and see caribou around it for warmth!  

I think that the people that live in Alaska should vote on this subject rather than people down in the states that have never traveled to Alaska or experienced Alaska wilderness.  Alaska is not like any other state in the US, so people in the continental US have no concept of the effects of drilling.

I am always surprised over the protest over the drilling in AK because almost all of the people wanting to save the animals are not even Alaska residents!  Bears aren't cute and cuddley when they maul your neighbor on their morning jog, the caribou don't seem very rare when you see herds of them every week next to the highway, and bald eagles don't seem so elegant when their hangout is the local dump to eat trash.