Offshore ANWR opens By Kristen Nelson, Petroleum News Editor-in-Chief
Those 1.6 million barrels could be flowing today, Murkowski said, if President Clinton had not vetoed Congressional approval of exploration in the coastal plain. “President Bush has strongly endorsed the opening of this area,” the governor said, noting that it has become an issue in the presidential race: “I think John Kerry has indicated that he had the pleasure of voting against it seven times.
“I don’t know what Senator Kerry has in mind, whether it’s that we should pick up our bicycles and drop our cars as the Chinese drop their bicycles and pick up their cars…”
There seems to be a lack of understanding that oil is what moves our cars, ships and planes, the governor said, and blamed extreme environmentalists for thwarting Alaska’s oil production potential.
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