Political Quotes

“the editorial in the Washington Post indicates that we can't drill our way out of our ties to the world oil market. Well, I agree with that. They further state that they feel we can generate from conservation what we would potentially recover from opening ANWR. It is kind of interesting to see what they said back in 1987. I will read a portion of it. The Washington Post, April 23, 1987: Preservation of wilderness is important, but much of Alaska is already under the strictest of preservation laws. . . . We have 56 million acres of wilderness in our State. But that part of the arctic coast is one of the bleakest, most remote places on this continent, and there is hardly any other place where drilling would have less impact on the surrounding life. . . . That oil could help ease the country's transition to lower oil supplies and . . . reduce its dependence on uncertain imports. Congress would be right to go ahead and, with all the conditions and environmental precautions that apply to Prudhoe Bay, see what's under the refuge's tundra. . . . April 4, 1989: But if less is to be produced here in the United States, more will have to come from other countries. The effect will be to move oil spills to other shores. As a policy to protect the global environment, that's not very helpful. . . . The lesson that conventional wisdom seems to be drawing-- that the country should produce less and turn to even greater imports--is exactly wrong.”