[TheForge] Re: fuel

[Jerry Frost]

It's not that we wouldn't like to sell our oil on a free market and aren't 
trying, there's legislation preventing it. Stevens, et al have been trying 
to get it freed up for decades.

Frosty
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From: <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.
>>
>> 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
>