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Take a postage stamp and put it in the middle of your living room.

This is basically the amount of area that we are fighting over in Alaska in general.

If you allow for max drilling. Take a six 3x5 post cards and put them on the floor of your living room that is at least 15x 15. That is the amount of space by percentage we are talking about.

So its not rape nor is it irresponsible. We are talking about a small percentage of the land. So small in fact that most people like you have absolutely no clue to the realities of how Big Alaska is or the area of the North slope ANWR is roughly the same size as California. The whole North slope is about 3/4 the size of Texas.

Yet Alaska is little more than 2.5 times the size of Texas. The The north slope along with parts of ANWR which goes beyond parts of the North Slope is roughly 30% of Overall Alaska land mass.

We are talking about a huge huge area with just a few miles of area that can be opened up for drilling.

To put it mildly. In one 10 mile by 10 mile county in Texas, it produces 6% of over all state oil. The area that they want to drill is considered equvelent to this county called Gains. They have asked for a drill area that of this size. They have asked for a 120 mile by 120 mile roughly exporation area. Where they will then actually drill in the 10 by 10. As I stated before I am more than ok allowing a 20 by 20 twice that amount because in the overall picture its a drop in the bucket.

Think of it this way. 10 mile by 10 mile area set aside for drilling within the whole state of California.

When you really look at the realities and look at the real numbers then tell me why we should not allow drilling in an area that already has drilling within 70 miles of the proposed new area?

Just does not make sense.

But drilling in ANWR solves nothing as far as price of oil in the big picture. No matter how much drilling is done and no matter how much oil makes it out, Price of oil will continue to climb. The oil from ANWR will slow this progression and we will see for a short time a drop in price somewhere down the road.

But unless America goes ahead and just bites the bullet and makes the effort to real clean forms of fuel like Hydrogen, certain types of coal then its just going to get worse.

But If America does move to hydrogen in conjunction with drilling in ANWR then America can see independence from Foriegn oil.

Honestly, I do not think America needs another ticking time bomb of Nuclear power. Yea its generally safe and it provides generally clean power. But accidents happen and then you have to deal with the disposal of the nuclear waste. We are currently having a major problem in dealing with the waste we have much less add to that problem.

So lets go Hydrogen, FHI Solar power which is 10k times better than the current solar pannels designs out there and in use, Wind power and allow for other forms of alternative fuels to remove domestic demand on petroleum.

Its just a matter of leadership and in as little as 3 to 5 years, America could be free of the problems we face with petroleum and high cost of energy.