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Bocablkr, there are many othere people that disagree with your "facts". Some say that there is enough to hold us for "years".
We should already have pumped the place dry by now.
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From
ANWR.org A website deicated to propome drilling in the refuge.
Recoverable oil estimates ranges from 600 million barrels at the low end to 9.2 billion barrels at the high end. The US is currently using nearly 20 million barrels per day and increasing every year- so the low end estimate is a months worth of oil in the US. The high end is at less than 16 months. No "realistic" estimates have come out that think ANWR could fuel America for any signifigant period of time. At best estimates that it could contribute 1-3% of our total production for 15-20 years (at current levels of incresing use) before it became uneconomical to continue.