The progressive method to deal with ANWR and "Big Oil"

[queeg]

There seems to be a lack of practicality when dealing with the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, and where some oil companies want to drill for oil.

Shit, SELL IT TO THEM--here's the offer:

A--cost is $1,000,000 per acre

B--land will only be sold in 1 section (640 acres, 1sq mile) portions.

C--there will be no rights-of-way granted


What this means is that if the oil companies want it enough they can pay off the national debt in one fell swoop. ---Say they want to drill in a place near the center that will take a 20 mile road to get there. ---they will have to pay for each section they build the road on plus the section they want to drill.

640 acres times 20 miles = 12800 acres

12800 acres times 1mil per acre = $12,800,000,000

plus another 640 mil for the section to drill on.


---I say take the 12 billion, and buy Cuba or something---splurge a little.

and if the oil companies want to pave the whole fucking thing----great I say---let them buy it--its about 1.5 million acres--

that'll be 1,500,000,000,000 ----or----1.5 trillion dollars

---I say tell them we take PayPal

[Strelnikov_]

1. Big Oil Is No Longer Interested, At Any Price

Big Oil Steps Aside in Battle over Arctic
By Jeff Gerth
The New York Times

Monday 21 February 2005

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/E022205Y.shtml

A Bush adviser says the major oil companies have a dimmer view of the refuge's prospects than the administration does. "If the government gave them the leases for free they wouldn't take them," said the adviser, who would speak only anonymously because of his position. "No oil company really cares about ANWR," the adviser said, using an acronym for the refuge, pronounced "an-war."

. . .

"The enthusiasm of government officials about ANWR exceeds that of industry because oil companies are driven by market forces, investing resources in direct proportion to the economic potential, and the evidence so far about ANWR is not promising," Mr. Kelley said.