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Recently, there has been an outraged cry to save the working men and women of America by allowing oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and the outer continental shelf. This cry has been lead by those compassionate conservatives in the Republican Party who know how hard it is to make a buck, pay for childcare, pick up the nanny on the other side of town, and fuel up the golf cart. A little review of government statistics shows that the world uses about 85 million barrels of oil every day. That number is expected to increase to 118 million in the next 20 years. Production from ANWR, once developed in 12 years, could be expected to put out 1.2 million barrels a day. Thus, ANWR could put out about 1% of the world ’s oil, a good amount! But what would it do for the price of gas?

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