Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) is demanding that the Commerce Department release detailed reports on which companies are exporting U.S. oil, how much and where it goes. The Commerce Department refuses to hand the information over to an "individual representative", however.
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005040512350002903521&dt=20050405123500&w=RTR&coview=Last year the U.S. exported 268 million barrels of oil. Ironically, according to Dept. of Energy figures, that's about equal to the amount of oil we imported from Iraq in 2001. It's also about equal to the most optimistic guesses about production volume from drilling in ANWR.
We need to get LOUD about this, because you know the media is ignoring it all. We also need to show our support to the House and Senate members who are making a stink about it and contact our own Representatives.
As well, Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon), and George Miller (D-California), the Ranking Member of the House Resources Committee, have proposed to reinstate the ban on Alaskan Oil Exports.
http://www.house.gov/defazio/031600EGRelease.shtml Prior to 1995, Alaskan oil was shipped exclusively to the West Coast, Hawaii, and the US Virgin Islands. Currently, Alaska produces approximately one million barrels of oil a day. Of these the U.S. exports 60,000 barrels a day (between three and four oil tankers a month) to China and Japan.
Thirty-three Republicans in the Senate have advocated drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a means to address the diminishing supply of OPEC oil. DeFazio dismissed this idea as misguided saying, "It is ridiculous to consider drilling in the pristine Alaskan wilderness, when we are shipping Alaskan oil to China and Japan."
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