our Alaskan oil is 'sour', wonder if ANWR oil is 'sour' too?

[donsu]

http://www.buzzflash.com/mailbag/05/03/mai05081.html

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Dear BuzzFlash:

My two cents on drilling in the ANWR ...

Some years ago I worked for the largest oil industry information service in the world. One day while chatting with one of the company's geologists, someone commented on the existing Alaska pipeline. They said they thought our country must have needed the oil, or we wouldn't have built the pipeline. The geologist gave a surprising response: "Unfortunately, we don't use the oil from the pipeline. It's sour (meaning sulfurous) and would cost too much to clean up for use in the US because of our air quality standards. We have been selling that oil to other countries that have less stringent air standards." I remember being shocked that we, as a country, had been talked into a pipeline across pristine wilderness, for oil we don't even use.

Now they want to drill in another beautiful wilderness. It certainly would be interesting to see the results of the test holes up there to see if the oil is "sweet" (good) or "sour" (not good), and whether it's oil that will be used in the US, or whether it will be sold elsewhere. If sold elsewhere, who will profit?

Eve in Colorado
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[BlueEyedSon]

1. I heard that for a variety of reasons the ANWR oil will go to asia.

[htuttle]

2. I'm sure it is

And I'm sure most of it will get sold to Japan and China, too.

As with all things in the United States of America, you will pay for it, and the CEOs will keep the profits.

It's the American way...

[Nordmadr]

3. Yeah, and to see how selling off our Alaska oil will reduce our

dependence on foreign oil, which is one of the primary factors they have argued for doing it in the first place.

Olaf

[maxsolomon]

4. but that sulfurous oil gets burned on THIS planet

if it doesn't meet our regulatory standards, it shouldn't be sold & used elsewhere.

you see, there's this thing called THE JET STREAM, and it blows west to east, generally. it tends to distribute things around the entire globe...

[BlueEyedSon]

5. Really? NO WAY!

:puke:

[BiggJawn]

6. That makes sense, a whole lot of sense...

More sense than the idea that as long as Big Oil can sell North Slope dead dinosaurs to China for less than they can buy Mid East from Abdullah, they will...

Well, then, it's quite simple....TinMan Cheney just has to get those pesky Clean Air regulations deep-sixed, dontchaknow?