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Dave Cohen on October 28, 2005 - 10:23pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
And another thing. ANWR is really a kind of joke, isn't it? We might as well save it for future generations. What, there's maybe 9 bbo URR up there? Screw it. I'm kind of tired of a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations. I shall quote Lincoln who, speaking of the Civil War, I just paraphrased.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
The great cause is now Oil Depletion. The honored dead are in Iraq. The freedom is energy independence and sanity. These are sentiments that I can live with and that are entirely relevant to the problems that lie before us.
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MikeCotton on October 29, 2005 - 1:24am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Regarding ANWR, I read an interview with Matt Simmons about three months ago, and he made a point about ANWR that I haven't seen anywhere else.

Essentially, his point was that the Alaskan Pipeline was engineered to have a minimum flow rate of 500,000 bpd.  You have to pump that much in every day to keep the internal pressure high enough to lift the crude over the Brooks Range.  Thus, once North Slope production drops below 450-500,000 bpd, we lose all of it in one fell swoop.

Looked at that way, ANWR becomes kind of a no-brainer.  Which sucks, becauseI think drilling there is an otherwise shitty idea.  

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wkwillis on October 30, 2005 - 3:12am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I believe the technical phrase used was "becomes the world's biggest chapstick".
Maybe we should build methane to gasoline refineries on the North Slope? Construction season is way short up there, so barge them in after building them in the Seattle area? They are just H2S removal and oxygen plants and cooling towers and catalyst plants as far as I know, nothing that can't be barged in.
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