Sweetland and ANWR
Dale Sweetland, who is running for congress in the NY25th, believes drilling in the Alaskan wildlife refuge is a good idea:
OSWEGO, NY (2008-05-23) Retiring Congressman Jim Walsh says he now supports drilling for oil in the Alaskaarctic National Wildlife Refuge after years of opposing the idea. Dan Maffei,the Democrat who wants to succeed Walsh, calls it a bad idea. But Republican candidate Dale Sweetland supports it. Sweetland spoke to WRVO’s Chris Ulanowski.
You can follow the link and listen to it on WRVO.
Last week, Exile wrote about the “brilliance” (insert tongue in cheek here) of this candidate , where he talked about the Iraq war. Now he shows us a little piece of his energy/environmental stance.
Call me crazy, but I don’t think this is going to garner him any extra votes in a predominantly Democratic district.
Drilling in ANWR is a big political loser for Republicans, especially in this area.
Whatever you think of the environmental impact of drilling in ANWR, the maximum impact on our oil supply would be 2% of our total consumption in 2020, and that’s if we started drilling in 2002:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN2934033020080429?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true
Some estimates are that drilling in ANWR would only give us at most 3 years of oil. The environmental impact could last much longer.