I was thinking about ANWR and the relative size of the area compared to the size of the area where oil companies would like to drill.  Then Rush just blurted out the relevant information for me on the show earlier today (11 June).  

ANWR is 19,000,000 acres.  Oil companies want to drill on 2,000 of these acres which equals 3.125 square miles.  (Do the math here if you doubt me:  http://www.metric-conversions.org/area/ ... -acres.htm).  

That is all good information but still a little hard to visualize.  Suppose ANWR were a standard 8.5 x 11 inch piece of paper.  How big a square on the page would be needed for drilling?  Well, here goes the math.  Please correct me if you see something obviously wrong.

An 8.5 x 11 inch paper is 2374.90 square millimeters.  (8.5 * 11) * 25.4 = 2374.90 mm.
2000 Acres divided by 19000000 acres is 0.000105 or .0105% of the total space.  
0.000105 x 2374.90 square millimeters is 0.249989 square millimeters

Therefore, if ANWR were exploited for oil, and ANWR were the size of an 8.5 x 11 inch piece of paper the space needed on that paper to extract the vast oil reserves would be 1/100th of the size of one of the holes on a three-hole punch piece of paper.  

That is what the Democrats and Evironmental Whackos are refusing to open up to drilling.  Now please tell me who the extremists are.

I never thought of it that way.  Thanks for the analogy.

Problem with the oil companies you give them that 2000 acres there eventually gonna take the rest of that acreage! Never trust Big Oil besides that still not the answer, we need to get away from oil altogether or bring it down to a dull roar at least! If we could get a "Manhattan Project"  of energy we could solve this energy crisis and make everyone happy! Except the middle east cause we could be through with them!

Bonaduce wrote:Problem with the oil companies you give them that 2000 acres there eventually gonna take the rest of that acreage! Never trust Big Oil besides that still not the answer, we need to get away from oil altogether or bring it down to a dull roar at least! If we could get a "Manhattan Project"  of energy we could solve this energy crisis and make everyone happy! Except the middle east cause we could be through with them!

No, you are missing the point. The oil companies don't need to touch the other acres in ANWR.  They know where the oil is and they can get to it and extract it on those 2000 acres.  "Big oil" is a product of liberal ideologues.  "Pristine ecosystems" are an invention of environmental whackos.  The 2000 acres in question is largely a mosquito infested bog when it isn't frozen over.  

There is no acceptable alternative to oil for the next 10 or 20 years.  Go ahead and dream but it isn't going to happen.  If you look into this you will realize it.  Tell me are the alternatives available in the next 15 years to fix this government-made problem that was created by restricting the development of our own domestic oil and natural gas reserves?  It isn't pretty but it is fact.  

Your proposal for a "Manhattan Project" sounds like another government boondoggle to throw more money at a problem.  The only problem is that government does nothing well.  Name the last successful government project?  More government is not the answer.  It never was, never is and never will be!

Big Oil is a product of itself not the Liberals. I didnt say the Project had to be run by the goverment i was saying we as a country get together and fix this! We have plenty of brainiacs out their who could come up with a solution. Goverment can't run squat i will give you that Mr. Con so why do we vote for these schmucks anyways?

Bonaduce wrote:Big Oil is a product of itself not the Liberals. I didnt say the Project had to be run by the goverment i was saying we as a country get together and fix this! We have plenty of brainiacs out their who could come up with a solution. Goverment can't run squat i will give you that Mr. Con so why do we vote for these schmucks anyways?

"Big Oil" is a creation of Liberals.  Of the top 25 oil companies in the world how many are American companies?  Where do they rank in the top 25?  How many of the top 25 are state owned and run companies?  What percentage of proven oil reserves to America's top 3 oil companies control?  Look at the facts and American oil companies are small players in the world's petrochemical market.  

Many people are working on alternative sources of energy and nobody has found even one that will be ready in the next 10 years.  Those "brainiacs" are working hard on this project and it isn't happening.  

Why do we vote for the same corrupt idiots again and again?  I don't know but I will not vote for them again this year.  I have pledged "never again" when it comes to voting for people who lie to me.  John McCain will not get my vote.  I haven't voted for my RINO representative or his wife for the last 3 elections.  I am tired of getting lied to.  Bush proved that "compassionate conservative" was Republican for Liberal in 2004.  Never again!

See, these Punkarses burned you out too! Maybe we could ship them off to some island Mr. Con and lift our above ground Nuke testing for awhile!

As the old saying goes, "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!"  I am not buying their lies any longer.  My vote is reserved for true conservatives.   No RINOs need apply.

? I'd rather "Big Oil" be able to drill all 2000 acres in ANWR than have the government own the land and refuse to let the land be used, which is the situation now.

There's also a bunch of oil in the Rockies, the liberals won't let ANY oil be drilled. But the REAL culprit for the high cost of gas is the commodity brokers, who keep bidding it up and our dependence on OPEC. It costs them less than two dollars to make a barrel of oil that's selling on the futures market for over $134/barrel.

Drill here. Drill now.