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JQ said:
The United States relies on oil to supply about 40% of its energy requirements, more than any other source. At one time, this country relied almost entirely on domestic oil to supply its needs; but our need for oil is growing all the time and our domestic fields--among the oldest in the world--are rapidly being exhausted.




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Our domestic reserves may not be exhausted, but simply inaccessible, due to the actions of environmentalists.

For example, some experts estimate that ANWR contains up to 16 billion barrels of oil. It would take the United States 30 years at our current import levels to buy that much oil from Saudi Arabia. This much oil is available despite the fact that the proposed drilling site in ANWR is less than 2000 acres (less than 1/100 of 1% of ANWR--Denver's airport is 17 times larger than the proposed drilling site in ANWR). Furthermore, when ANWR was created a (by a Democrat President and a Democrat congress) the area that Bush has proposed exploration in was specifically set aside for oil exploration. Suddenly, however, the concept of drilling there is too terrible for Democrats to comprhend.

Similar charges have been leveled against Democrat/environmentalist opposition to offshore oil exploration.