ANWR = Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

ANWR Oil: ANWR contains 19,000,000 acres, thats right 19 million acres. The area that has been purposed to open for oil drilling operations is 2,000 acres, yes that right 2 thousand acres! That is 1/10 of 1 percent of the total land mass of ANWR! The light green is ANWR, can you see the tiny red dot located at the end of the arrow pointing to the purposed drilling area?

The purposed drilling area is located on the ANWR coastal plain, far from any rivers, streams or beloved mountains. Photograph on the right is ANWR coastal plain in winter. This is what our democrat lead congress has denied the American public from developing for it oil reserves! Below is the same general area of ANWR coastal plain in summer time.

I'm all for conservation but let us use a little common sense as well. With gasoline currently at $4.00 or more a gallon, still not showing signs of halting it's daily increases, how much longer can America afford not to develop this national resource and start drilling and pumping it's oil reserves?

It seems to me most democrats have no idea what and where this purposed oil drilling is. All they know is it part of ANWR and that puts it off limits for drilling and developing it's vast oil reserve.