The Truth About ANWR (Disclaimer: the following came to me in email. I have not changed anything except "style" - font, size of font, etc. Rather than doing my usual of "italics" when I post something not original to me, I chose to announce in this disclaimer changes and that the authorship is not mine) The Dalling family spent almost 6 years in Alaska. In my travels as an electrical contractor working out of Fairbanks, I can attest that this is factual information so I am passing this on, DD THINK ABOUT THIS EVERY TIME YOU FILL UP YOUR CAR My daughter and son-in-law were in L.A. last week from their home in Anchorage. He is a foreman in the oil fields at AMWR. He has to fly his own plane to get to the job where he spends months at a time in the most God forsaken place this side of Siberia . He confirmed everything that is in this story, and brought dozens of pictures for proof. Our environmentalist friends have forced gas prices up to an impossible rate, forcing us to buy oil from our enemies, for whatever reason that simply isn't true. There is enough oil in AMWR to supply the US at our present rate of usage for more than 200 years. The space that AMWR occupies in Alaska is equivalent to a postage stamp in the Mojave Desert. If you won't mind paying $5.00 a gallon in the very near future try to make sense of the following: Something you should know: Oil!! A lot of "STUFF" is about oil. From relatives in Alaska . g. Now that gasoline is $3.50 and climbing...we can help ourselves.... This is the best presentation on ANWR I have seen. I would like to add a little more information. A new pipeline across Alaska isn't required since the location for drilling in ANWR is about 160 miles from the North Slope Prudhoe Bay pipeline where it would be connected. I did not know this. Second the wildlife love the pipeline since it is heated and provides a shelter during the worst times during the winter. Maybe another question should be asked. FIRST do you know what ANWR is? ANSWER: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Now A comparison And some perspective? NOTE WHERE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AREA IS? (it's in the "ANWR Coastal Plain") THIS IS WHAT THE DEMOCRATS, LIBERALS AND "GREENS" SHOW YOUWHEN THEY TALK ABOUT ANWR and they are right these ARE photographs of ANWR ISN'T ANWR BEAUTIFUL? WHY SHOULD WE DRILL HERE (AND DESTROY) THIS BEAUTIFUL PLACE? WELL THAT'S NOT EXACTLY THE TRUTH Do you remember the map? The map showed that the proposed drilling area is in the ANWR Coastal Plain Do those photographs look like a coastal plain to you? WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE THAT IS NOT WHERE THEY ARE WANTING TO DRILL! THIS IS WHAT THE PROPOSED EXPLORATION AREA ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IN THE WINTER AND THIS IS WHAT IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IN THE SUMMER HERE ARE A COUPLE SCREEN SHOTS FROM GOOGLE EARTH AS YOU CAN SEE, THE AREA WHERE THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT DRILLING IS A BARREN WASTELAND. OH AND THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE EFFECT ON THE LOCAL WILDLIFE? HERE IS A PHOTO (SHOT DURING THE SUMMER) OF THE "DEPLETED WILDLIFE" SITUATION CREATED BY DRILLING AROUND PRUDHOE BAY * DON'T YOU THINK THAT THE CARIBOU REALLY HATE THAT DRILLING? HERE'S THAT SAME SPOT DURING THE WINTER. HEY, THIS BEAR SEEMS TO REALLY HATE THE PIPELINE NEAR PRUDHOE BAY * *The Prudhoe bay area accounts for 17% of U.S. Domestic oil production NOW, WHY DO YOU THINK THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE LYING ABOUT ANWR? REMEMBER WHEN AL GORE SAID THAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD WORK TO ARTIFICIALLY RAISE GAS PRICES TO $5.00 A GALLON? WELL AL GORE AND HIS FELLOW DEMOCRATS HAVE ALMOST REACHED THEIR GOAL! NOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN LYING, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? YOU CAN START BY FORWARDING THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW SO THAT THEY WILL KNOW THE TRUTH.