55 Flash Fiction Friday: Energy Independence

McCain voted 20 times against funding alternative energy sources. Drill baby drill they say. Yet no one mentions that it would take six to ten years of infrastructure building before a single drop is produced. They also neglect to say that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil isn’t enough to bring independence from foreign oil.

Study: ANWR oil would have little impact
Heavy reliance on foreign imports would continue, agency finds
updated 6:45 p.m. PT, Tues., March. 16, 2004

The report, issued by the Energy Information Administration, or EIA, said that if Congress gave the go-ahead to pump oil from Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the crude could begin flowing by 2013 and reach a peak of 876,000 barrels a day by 2025.

But even at peak production, the EIA analysis said, the United States would still have to import two-thirds of its oil, as opposed to an expected 70 percent if the refuge’s oil remained off the market.

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