Harry Reid: “I don't want the day to end without there being spread across the record of this Senate the fact that all this talk…”

“I don't want the day to end without there being spread across the record of this Senate the fact that all this talk about the salvation of our country and the world by drilling in ANWR is just based upon false facts. Out of 100 percent of fossil fuel around the country, excluding coal, the United States has 3 percent of the reserves. Ninety-seven percent is someplace else. That includes the very small portion of those reserves in Alaska. We are going to have to change the way we do business in America as it relates to fuel or we are going to continue to import more fuel. We cannot be self-sufficient for gasoline and petroleum products. We can't be. We do not have the natural resources to do that. We can drill in ANWR--this beautiful pristine wilderness--and get enough fuel for 6 months in the United States, a relatively small amount. But what we have to do is look to alternative energy sources--wind, sun, geothermal, and biomass. That is where the future of this country is as far as fuel proficiency. It is not in drilling for oil that we don't have.”