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Old 07-23-2008, 02:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Technocratic_Utilitarian View Post
At peak profit/output, ANWR would only release ~850,000 bpd. That's about after 8 years of setup. Maybe a little more. After that, peak performance won't last long.

A study cited by MSNBC indicated it would only then decrease the price of oil p/b roughly 50 cents.
Jeez, well, isn't that better than nothing? And, it might buy us some more time to come up with/develop a more sustainable solution or two.

I just don't want us to become so obsessed with a mythical "perfect solution" that we end up doing nothing at all. Fiddling around while a crisis builds is bad enough, let's not continue to waste time now that the crisis is here.
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