Just a little tit bit on the radio this morning about drilling for oil in ANWR.

[Cleita]

It seems like all that oil that is already coming out of Alaska through the Alaska pipeline is going to Japan and China for the enrichment of the oil companies. Anything squeezed out of ANWR would probably end up there as well. Anytime some Repug member of Congress or Presidential candidate John McCain says we need to drill in ANWR, it would be the time to demand answers as to why we aren't keeping our own oil for domestic use?

[HERVEPA]

1. Provocative. But I think it's tidbit :-)

[Cleita]

6. You know what I spelled it like that and spell check made me change it

to tit bit. Go figure.

[LSK]

2. Randi said she will be talking about this in depth coming up

[Cleita]

5. She's talking about it now.

Really has good information she is passing on to us.

[wryter2000]

3. I heard that, too

I wish I had a link because I was debating with a freeper about drilling in ANWR.

[gratuitous]

4. We have to ship our oil to Asia to help out the oil companies

I mean, those guys are barely scraping by right now.

Historical note: The Alaska Pipeline was built on the promise that every drop coming out its southern end would go to the domestic market. The full catastrophic environmental impact of the Alaska Pipeline is unknown, but the oil companies - The ones that are just barely scraping by? - haven't added any West Coast refineries for decades. They have other things to spend their $40 billion annual profits on that don't stretch to expanding refinery capacity.

[Canuckistanian]

7. There's nothing that compels the oil companies to keep oil in America

Once it's extracted, it's just ordinary product to them.

Whoever pays them for it, gets it.

[Cleita]

8. I think things need to change then.

That's like growing food and shipping it overseas to the highest bidder while the people in the country who grew it starved. It happened in Ireland in the nineteenth century. This is no different.

[SharonAnn]

11. In order to drill in Alaska, they had to agree to sell in America. Then they found

that they could get better prices in Asia so that got the congress to pass legislation to permit them to sell outside the U.S.

Twas ever thus with these guys.

[MiniMe]

14. Check snopes. They are only selling 7% of what is produced outside the US

I was shocked when I learned this, I thought that most of it was sold outside the US too.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/alaskaoil.asp

[Canuckistanian]

15. That was 1996-2000. I'd like to know what the present figures are

Even Snopes doesn't have that answer.

[hootinholler]

9. Yum! I love me some tit bits!

:evilgrin:

-Hoot

[Cleita]

10. Apparently DU's spell check does too! LOL! n/t

[MiniMe]

12. Actually, Snopes says this is false

While we do export some oil, its only about 7% of the total produced.

I thought that was true too, but it isn't

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/alaskaoil.asp

[Cleita]

13. Thanks for the info.

I guess Thom Hartmann was wrong.