It would definitely help out the permanent fund which is in crisis after the past few shitty years in the stock market. Alaskans are mostly all for it, they live for those cushy jobs of yesteryear on the pipeline and the yearly permanent fund checks.
No one agrees about the amount of potential oil but even the high estimates would provide only 10% of our oil consumption for six years. The coastal plain where the think the oil is, is owned by two native corporations so I dont really understand how that works.....I guess they own only the surface land.
At some point our Governor wanted to ask companies that the permanent fund has invested in to lobby votes for ANWR drilling since he thinks a company in a senators home state could influence the vote more than someone from AK.
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