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O'siyo Brothers and Sisters!
In the 1950's and 1960's Johnny Carson hosted a
gameshow called "Who do you Trust".
Let's play our own version.
President George W. Bush is again pushing to have the ANWR Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge) opened to oil exploration. His claim is that
it will reduce our dependency on foreign oil and lower prices at the gas
pump.
This comes from a man who just this month assured US citizens that by
July 31, the number of US combat brigades will be down 25 percent from
last fall. Which is, in terms of numbers of combat brigades, correct.
But the implication, that numbers of soldiers will be reduced, is
absolutely false. What he does not tell you is that the brigades left
behind will have more men in them than they did last fall - a lot more
men. The number of individual troops will be 140,000 next fall and the
number there this past January was 132,000.
The Wilderness Society, using figures supplied by the US Government's
own Energy Information Administration, provides the following at http://www.savearcticrefuge.org/PennyaGallon20yrs.pdf
Refuge Drilling and Gas Prices:
Drilling Nets About a Penny per Gallon, 20 Years From Now Proponents of
drilling Arctic National Wildlife Refuge point to rising gasoline prices
as a reason to drill one of America's last wild places. But in reality,
Arctic Refuge oil would amount to a drop in the bucket of the oil
market.
The U.S. Department of Energy's own Energy Information Administration (EIA)
estimates that even twenty years down the road, when Arctic Refuge oil
is at or near peak production, gas prices would be affected by about a
penny per gallon. (U.S. Dept. of Energy., Energy Information
Administration, July 2005, "Impacts of Modeled Provisions of HR 6 EH:
The Energy Policy Act of 2005" http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/servicerpt/hr/pdf/sroiaf(2005)04.pdf.
EIA estimates reduction of $0.57 per barrel of oil. Assuming a
one-to-one impact on gasoline prices, $0.57/42 = $0.014 per gallon.) A
Drop in the Bucket 0.8%
A July 2005 report from EIA, which optimistically used USGS estimates of
technically recoverable oil, found:
(EIA, "Impacts of Modeled Provisions of HR 6 EH" Table C2 (pg 9) and
Table C20 (pg 50))
* If oil were discovered in commercial quantities, it would take 10
years before a drop of Arctic Refuge oil could first be produced. In
2015, it would only make up 0.06% of world oil production.
* Even at or near peak production (in 2025), Arctic Refuge oil would
make up only 8/10 of 1 percent (0.8%) of world oil production and only
3% of U.S. oconsumption.
ARCTIC REFUGE OIL AS PERCENTAGE OF WORLD OIL PRODUCTION, 2025
Oil Prices are Set on the World Market
Oil prices are set on a global oil market, and Arctic Refuge oil
production would amount to a drop in the bucket. Historically, such
small increases in U.S. production have had little or no impact on world
oil prices. The latest EIA report predicts that when Arctic Refuge oil
is at or near peak (2025), prices at the pump would only be affected by
about a penny per gallon.
Who do you trust?
Dohiyi Ani Oginalii
Gary Smith (*,*)
wotanging@bellsouth.net
P. O. Box 672168 (`-') gars@nanews.org
Marietta, GA 30006, U.S.A. ===w=w===
http://www.nanews.org
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"The healing, that is God's. No human does
that," she explained. "A lot of people don't understand how healing
works, and they're afraid of it. The Creator does all of that, so we
shouldn't be afraid." --- Audrey Sunnyboy, Athabascan and Yupik
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As
historian Patricia Nelson Limerick summarized in "The Legacy of
Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West...
"Set the blood quantum at one-quarter, hold to it as a rigid definition
of Indians, let intermarriage proceed as it had for centuries, and
eventually Indians will be defined out of existence. When that happens,
the federal government will be freed of its persistent 'Indian
problem.'"
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Once a language is lost, it is gone forever. Of the 300 original Native
languages in North America, only 175 exist today. * 125 of these are no
longer learned by children. * 55 are spoken by 1 to 6 elders; when they
die, their language will disappear. * Without action, only 20 languages
will survive the next 50 years. Source: Indigenous Language Institute
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