God damnit! Just heard about ANWR

[Goathead]

This is more of a psychological victory for those republican fucks than anything. They haven't won this yet. I need info on protests in D.C. this weekend, my girlfriend and I need to be there. We will not take this lying down.

[hiley]

1. no they have not won yet

your right. We still have the budget.
Great diary at kos link here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1665143

We can still fight the drilling through the budget, please tell everyone .
http://takeaction.worldwildlife.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=24456

[illflem]

2. No doubt there will also be years of lawsuits ahead

[Selatius]

3. They don't want the oil; they just want to make money

There's around 10,400,000,000 barrels of oil down underneath ANWR. Daily US consumption of oil is around 20,000,000 a day. Divide total reserves by daily US consumption, and you get 520 days worth of oil.

This is assuming we can get every last barrel economically. In reality, we can only extract half that amount because anything beyond half becomes progressively more expensive to pull out of the ground.

This is just another way to get the government to give oil companies development contracts worth untold millions.

[graphixtech]

4. A TRUTH SLIP – the TRUE Agenda is farther reaching

Tom Delay LETS TRUTH SLIP . . .

http://www.defenders.org/releases/pr2003/pr092503b.html

September 25, 2003Septthe

TOM DELAY LETS TRUTH SLIP
ON DRILLING IN ARCTIC REFUGE

WASHINGTON, DC -- Remarks by representative Tom DeLay, reported today in Roll Call, reveal the true agenda behind the push to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

"On Tuesday, during a closed door session of the House GOP leadership, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said that the battle in Congress to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration is a fight over whether energy exploration will be allowed in similarly sensitive areas in the future... ‘It's about precedent,’ DeLay told the assembled Republican leaders while making several references to the ‘symbolism of ANWR,’ according to GOP sources." -- Roll Call, September 25, 2003

"Tom DeLay has now stated plainly what we’ve known all along: that drilling in the Arctic Refuge is not about energy independence or the war on terrorism," said Rodger Schlickeisen, President of Defenders of Wildlife. "The drive to drill for oil in the Arctic Refuge is about oil company profits and lifting barriers to future oil exploration in protected lands, pure and simple."

[Booster]

6. I think you're right on here. It's about drilling off the coast of

California more than anything else and I can guarantee there will be one Hell of a fight on that one.

[graphixtech]

7. thanks,

good to know.
godspeed.

[TrustingDog]

8. They'll testing their muscles.

far as I understand it's not about the possible oil, because there isn't that much there. it's about what the fuck next they can get away with while we all feel helpless about it.

it's more physc-ops than anything.

[LiberalEsto]

5. No DC protests planned?

DAWN, the DC Anti-War Network - www.dawndc.net - is organizing buses to Fayetteville, NC for protests on Saturday March 19.

I'm not sure anything official is planned here DC