ANWR oil may create area jobs (Seattle P-I)

[icymist]

Friday, March 18, 2005

ANWR oil may create area jobs
But port officials are cautious about how many

By BRAD WONG
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

They were heady times, recalled Ron McCray.

The 1970s. The last big Alaska oil rush.


Many left homes and families in Seattle for construction jobs on the North Slope. Others found work here in a booming economy that supplied the new pipeline, stretching across a vast expanse between the sea and the oil field. McCray's co-workers could earn as much as $60,000 a year working extra long hours. And back then, that was big money.

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While environmentalists and some lawmakers vow to fight the controversial plan and protect the refuge, a green light for the project could bring additional construction, transportation and port jobs to the Puget Sound area.

But while the work will quench a blue-collar labor market thirsty for jobs since the region's economy contracted sharply three years ago, an area economist and port officials were guarded about just how many new jobs oil drilling in the ANWR might produce. It is premature to determine the overall economic impact on the region, they said.

More:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/216498_anwrimpact18.html

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Operative word being "may" n/t

[LincolnMcGrath]

2. These jobs will go 'rat' for the most part.

Nothing like the jobs of the 70s. (Of which my Father was part of)

[mhr]

3. ANWR Holds Between 6 and 16 Billion Barrels Of Oil

The world uses 80 Million Barrels of Oil per day.

6 Billion barrels = 75 days of world supply

16 Billion barrels = 200 days of world supply

The US uses 20 Million Barrels of Oil per day.

6 Billion barrels = 300 days of US supply = .83 years

16 Billion Barrels = 800 days of US supply = 2.2 years

It will take 5-10 years before a drop of this oil hits a refinery.

Hardly seems worth the effort when raising the CAFE standards would save more than we get with drilling.

[proud_dem]

7. Hardly seems worth it, except ....

6-16 billion barrels @ say $60 (probably be higher once they do get it) a barrel sold on the Chinese and Japanese markets equals $360-$960 BnD.

That will be in Bush, Cheney, Halliburton and the Oil companies pockets, that is what they see.

[mhr]

8. Yes - The Real Story Is Greed Not Common Sense

Would we expect anything else from the Bush/Cheney crowd?

[NVMojo]

4. big fucking woooooooooooooooo!!! I live in a single extraction industry

town and most of the miners working here today came here in the late 80s from bankrupt mining towns in Wyoming and Montana to start all over again in another extraction industry town. Only they had it better back then cuz they filed bankruptcy on their homes and lives in Montana and Wyoming and left and started all over again here in Elko. They won't be able to do that when this gold run is over and neither will those who will be reaping the temporary profits from the oil extraction industry in Alaska when it is all over. The Repricks have them coming and going forever now. Idiots get it in the end!!!

[HuckleB]

5. The P-I and its Repub propaganda machine at work again.

There will be no added jobs in Seattle from opening ANWR. There isn't enough oil, and that oil won't be drilled anytime soon. This is a hilarious piece of phony journalism.

[Mr.Green93]

6. Anyone who takes these jobs

is a traitor to the environment and should be shunned.

[Lindacooks]

10. I agree.

eom

[Southern Dem 2005]

11. That's stretching it a bit

By that reasoning, anyone who works in the oil industry generally should be shunned, since that industry as a whole is destructive to the environment. I guess I have to disagree with you on this one. Can't really fault someone for taking a job.

[HuckleB]

13. First, there will be no jobs.

Second, I won't condemn the hungry for trying to take care of themselves and their family, when the choices of how to do that are ever smaller.

[me b zola]

14. You are right. We can't condemn workers.

What we can condemn is the criminal administration & the Senate whores who work tirelessly to make slave/whores of us all. How frickin far must we regress??? Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' is returning to us.

A pox on the houses of those who abuse their power.

[xxqqqzme]

9. administration propaganda machine

keeps churning out BS.

[Massachusetts]

12. "ANWR oil may create area jobs (Seattle P-I)"

FOR CLEAN UP CREWS!

[cthrumatrix]

15. let's watch how this plays out...get names and keep quotes

[zanne]

16. This is the same argument they use when....

When they want to bulldoze your neighborhood to build a new Wal-Mart.

[ausiedownunderground]

17. America has a lot of people out of a job in Alaska!

I must admit that i don't know. But what i do know from my "Oil reservoir" and "Geo-Phys" friends is that America is "dreaming" if they think Alaska is the answer. American's will be lucky to find a "sweet crude" field at all. You'll probably find some "sour crude" if your people are "clever" ? But on a volume basis OZ oil people think "No big find in Alaska". Now for money i'll tell you exactly where to drill! But we got their first and its difficult to share with "Americans".

[icymist]

19. Isn't this the same kind of wishful thinking Bush-co has shown us all

including the world? We can 'fix' this problem with a band aid? Or, better said, "Hey everyone! Look at how we pull up a drop of oil when we need gallons!" Meanwhile, we all loose for the ANWR cannot be replaced!

[rocktivity]

18. PUFF PIECE ALERT!!!!

...an area economist and port officials were guarded about just how many new jobs oil drilling in the ANWR might produce. It is premature to determine the overall economic impact on the region, they said.

There's your dead giveaway. If it's "premature" to talk about how wonderful ANWR could be, isn't even more premature say that it will be wonderful, period? Karen Hughes is back on the job, all right.

:puffpiece:
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