mjg1231

The Case for Not Drilling ANWR

agree completely....

Policy makers need this pressure are so does the market to truly stimulate alternative energy investments. The US needs to adjust to high oil prices as other countries have had to face (two years of rising oil prices? I call that short term). I strongly doubt 'oil independence' will ever truly be achieved, rather, oil will remain 'expensive' as alternatives scale up to meet demand (but not relative to inflation). True visionaries will see the long term economic impact of high energy prices in a carbon constrained world and there will be winners and losers. Will the US economy 'fly apart at the wheels' because we do not drill ANWR? No, maybe for other reasons, but not because of letting ANWR sit where it is. When we price the use of a resource by including ALL costs (over the entire life cycle and include the impacts on our environment), policy and markets will enable better decisions more in line with our survival as a species.

Whiners should sell their Ford Excursions and Toyota Tundras and Nissan Armadas.