[TheForge] Re: fuel

[schade at acegroup.cc]

On Feb 5, 2006, at 11:21 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:

> Alaskan oil can't be sold outside the U.S.
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> Frosty
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Where would ANWR oil go?
By Warren Cornwall
Seattle Times staff reporter

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens stood on the floor of the Senate a month ago  
and urged his colleagues to support drilling in the Arctic National  
Wildlife Refuge. Do it to boost our domestic oil supplies, he said. Do  
it to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

What Stevens did not mention was this: Alaskan oil could wind up being  
sold overseas.

The Senate vote, which gave Stevens a 51-49 victory, makes no promise  
the oil pumped from the wildlife refuge (ANWR) has to be sold to  
domestic refineries.

Some pro-drilling forces say a final bill could ban refuge oil from  
going overseas, a restriction contained in an energy bill now before  
the House that would open ANWR to oil exploration. Such a ban, however,  
wouldn't apply to other Alaskan oil. And a similar pledge was reversed  
in the past.

complete article at.....

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/ 
2002245699_export17m.html