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Enviros Find Lame Excuses Not to Drill Offshore and in the Arctic

By Paul Danish
Boulder Weekly | July 21, 2008
One of the more commonly used talking points of those who oppose drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or on the Outer Continental Shelf is that it would be at least 5 to 7 years before any ANWR or OCS crude reached U.S. refineries. It's one of the dumber arguments environmentalists and their Democratic allies in Congress make, and if you want to know why, consider how long it would take to produce an equivalent amount of fuel from any alternative source.
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Tags: Congress, energy, environment, Alaska, offshore drilling, ANWR

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