{"id":3872,"date":"2003-03-19T17:32:08","date_gmt":"2003-03-19T22:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2003-03-19T17:32:08","modified_gmt":"2003-03-19T22:32:08","slug":"not_the_answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/19\/not_the_answer.html","title":{"rendered":"Not the ANsWeR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remarkably enough, the Senate has voted down ANWR drilling<\/a> by a vote of 52-48. Despite active lobbying by Dick Cheney (according to drilling supporters, though the VP’s office has denied it), the fillibuster-proof budget resolution failed to get the support of seven GOP senators (though five Democratic senators voted for it).<\/p>\n

I’m glad.<\/p>\n

There are high costs to US dependence on foreign oil, certainly. But there would be permanent costs to ANWR to drilling, and the potential gain in petroleum is a drop in the bucket of our total consumption. I mean, jeez, I have this distinct feeling that if the money that was being invested in lobbying for ANWR drilling (plus the massive costs of drilling and extraction itself) were dedicated to R&D to otherwise reduce that import depedence, it would become a lot more feasible.<\/p>\n

It’s a spark of good news, in an otherwise dreary and depressing week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remarkably enough, the Senate has voted down ANWR drilling by a vote of 52-48. 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