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Re: Bachmann: I'll get gas under $2

By: oldCADuser in FFFT | Recommend this post (0)
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I hope someones tells Michele that if we were to start drilling for oil in Alaska's ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) region TODAY that it could be as long as 10 years before the first barrel of oil from there could be delivered to an American refinery. Also it has been estimated (link provided below) that if drilling were to commence immediately that peak production would not occur before 2030, at which time the oil production from ANWR would account for something between 0.4% and 1.2% of the world's oil production at that time.

MS. Bachmann, Please explain to the rest of us how this could possibly have any impact on the pump price of gasoline in this country any time between 2013 and 2021, the maximum period of time in which you would be in the White House IF you managed to win the presidency based in part on outrageous claims like this? 

Let's hope that if she continues with this sort of claim that she will be asked to defend it in some upcoming primary debate.

The link to where I got the ANWR production figures from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Refuge_drilling_controversy




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Bachmann: I'll get gas under $2
By: clo in FFFT
Wed, 17 Aug 11 10:10 PM 		Msg. 31715 of 65535

She's soo cute! ;)) clo

Bachmann: I'll get gas under $2

By DAN BERMAN & MOLLY BALL | 8/17/11 11:57 AM EDT

Americans will save at the pump if Michele Bachmann is elected president, the Minnesota Republican said Tuesday.

“The day that the president became president gasoline was $1.79 a gallon. Look at what it is today,” she said at an event in Greenville, S.C.. “Under President Bachmann, you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again. That will happen.”

The average price for a gallon of gasoline is currently $3.58 per gallon, according to AAA.

Bachmann didn’t detail how she would cut the price of gasoline, which is tied to the global price of oil. She briefly mentioned the prospect of oil shale development in Western states and has been an active proponent of increased domestic oil drilling, including in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

This article first appeared on POLITICO Pro at 11:55 a.m. on August 17, 2011.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61566.html#ixzz1VJQP5EC4

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