Do the math: NOT the path to energy independence.
US Fish and Wildlife Service: How much oil in the arctic national wildlife refuge (ANWR)? To sum up: there is a 50% chance of finding 5.3 b barrels of recoverable oil (~7 b at the high end) there (this represents a little over 20% of US reserves or 1.5 years of extra production at current US rates). At its peak (probably in 2020), Alaskan oil production from the ANWR will likely be 800,000 barrels a day. That’s 1/10 the current US production or 4% of what we currently use each day. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]
