A friend of mine recently wrote (message in its entirety, ellipses in original):
Subject: Write your representatives, guys......not that it'll do much good with the idiots this state keeps sending to DC.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7195164
Pay particular attention to the percentage difference opening up the reserves would make...a whopping 2.5%...and even the most pro-oil estimates say there's only 18 months worth of oil in there.
I'm actually rather fond of some of the people we send to DC, but that's beside the point.
We can kick the 2.5% total consumption number around for a while. What number you get depends on which estimate of the year we hit peak oil production from ANWR you match up with which estimate of our total oil consumption for that year. Taking a few at random, I'm getting numbers from around 2.5% to 5%. So I'll concede the 2.5% point.
