To Drill; or Not To Drill: That is the Question.

Today the House approved the domestic drilling of oil.  [image:325:r:l=x] Unleash the surveying hounds from Oil Hell!  Scour the hemisphere from Maine to Alaska and requisition the biggest, blackest, crudest oil deposits known to man; caribou and birds be damned! 

While we could never sustain our own demand domestically it still makes sense to help supplement it with our own resources.

I applaud the House for passing this bill.  It’s definitely a step in the right direction as far as weaning ourselves off the middle-eastern teat and becoming self-sufficient.

The sad part is that every time the House has approved a bill the Senate shuts it down. 

“We need to develop energy, here at home. … We can’t say no to everything,” declared Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Calif.

Tom Daschle was one of them.  He argued that the oil would only sustain the United States demand for 6 months.  He was right; if ANWR became became our only resource for crude oil and gas.  Clearly it wouldn’t and therefore his argument was stupid, illogical and misleading.

There’s an estimated 5-15 billion barrels of oil in ANWR alone.  In reality the Alaskan Pipeline would take 25 years to move that much oil. Considering the Alaskan Pipeline accounts for almost 20% of our annual oil production it doesn’t seem like such bad idea now does it?