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You've got significant misinformation in this post, but amazingly your final conclusions are not too far off.

Absolutely *no* oil from the North Slope is being sold to Japan. It is *all* sold on the west coast domestic market.

Well, if that is bullpoo then you'll have to explain it to virtually *every* biologist that has ever worked with caribou on the North Slope. There is exactly one such biologist who says it won't be a disaster, and the others find his statements incredible. Matthew Cronin claims that every other biologist who has ever worked with caribou on the North slope is either lying or has misunderstood the data they've collected over the past 30 years.

Dozens of caribou biologists (every single one that is credible) says drilling in ANWR would be an environmental disaster.

That is an hilariously ridiculous statement. And it obviously comes from someone who has never been there...

Wrong again. It was in fact reserved, as is the land in three parks and refuges on the Canadian side of the border, to preserve the habitat of the Porcupine Caribou Herd, mostly because it is essential to the Gwich'in people who live on both sides of the border. If you look at the southern boundaries of ANWR you'll see that it was very carefully carved to keep the Gwich'in villages just outside the refuge, while keeping the areas used by the Porcupine Herd inside.

That is in fact a myth. If the wildest predictions came true, it would add about 1% to the world market and that would drive the price of a barrel of crude down by perhaps as much as 50 cents a barrel. The price of gasoline in the US would drop all of 4 cents a gallon. Whoop dee do.

Again, *none* of the crude oil from the North Slope is sold anywhere except in the US. Where *do* you get this garbage?

Exactly. It would also be great for the State of Alaska, so you don't find many Alaskan who aren't greedy enough to want it now. We get taxes and jobs. The rest of the country gets nothing.

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