You didn't address what I said earlier. If you allow drilling in ANWAR, why not open up drilling in the NPRA? Hey, after all the NPRA was CREATED as our backup Alaska oil reserve.
Why not, indeed? Open it up and if it is economically viable, relative to other alternatives, let 'er rip.
Also, our real reserve is not up in Alaska. It is in the oil shale in Colorado, which hte Dems & eco-weenies also are blocking the development of. It would likely become viable at ~$150/bbl oil. With more oil trapped in the shale than Saudi has under its sands.
If you think everything in the country will just stop working and people will start dying off without oil, let's open up the wild life refugees in Texas and Louisiana that has oil first. That will probably take less than 1-3 years to get it started.
Three days.
Until food riots, that is. Because that is what the average grocery stores have on their shelves before their on-hand supply is exhausted. Remove diesel fuel necessary to semi trucks from the equation and you have three days until people are killing each other in our major cities over food.
It goes downhill from there.
Yes, many people will die without oil. People will starve, the economy will go tango uniform, and you'll see massive die off of human populations, and the environment would be devastated as they sought substitutes to keep warm.
Deforestation, the killing of big game herds, untreated sewage dumped into the waterways, chemical spills unattended, and the like are just the beginning.
So, yeah, you'd have to be both a genocidal maniac AND desire the devastation of the environment to want to go petroleum-free. Or just ignorant, if one were to be charitable.
