<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Here's why Alaska is desperate to pump oil from ANWAR:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><ul><li>Without new oil the Alaska pipeline shuts down.</li><li>Without continued tax receipts from oil, the Alaska state budget might have to resort to increasing taxes.</li><li>Congressional Republicans count on oil taxes to allow more tax cuts. </li></ul><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Ashbury,georgia,serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(252,250,246)">The senators touted that opening the refuge would provide “billions of dollars in federal and state revenue” and “reduce our deficit.” Indeed, congressional Republicans are </span><a href="https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53301?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=812526&utm_campaign=Express_2017-11-09_08%3A00" style="background-color:rgb(252,250,246);margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(236,82,64);text-decoration-line:none;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(235,228,228);font-family:Ashbury,georgia,serif;font-size:20px">counting on</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Ashbury,georgia,serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(252,250,246)"> nearly $1.1 billion dollars in revenue from ANWR drilling over the next decade to fund proposed corporate tax cuts and broader tax reform.</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Ashbury,georgia,serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(252,250,246)">If developing the ANWR is important for the economics of the Republican tax plan, it’s the Holy Grail for a state struggling with a $3-billion-dollar annual budget deficit. Low oil production and prices have severely undermined the state’s finances, not unlike during the 1980s recession. Tapping the Arctic Refuge has long been touted as the cure-all when low oil prices have thrown the state into financial panic.</span><br></div><div><a href="https://e360.yale.edu/features/trans-alaska-pipeline-is-fueling-the-push-to-drill-arctic-refuge">https://e360.yale.edu/features/trans-alaska-pipeline-is-fueling-the-push-to-drill-arctic-refuge</a><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA</font></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 1:13 PM Ted Moffett <<a href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">starbliss@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Why should I be surprised? As if the Democratic Party's commitment to a <b><i><font size="4">rapid</font></i></b> transition away from fossil fuels to address climate change is more than posturing to placate environmentalists, while they don't dare to largely threaten the power of some major fossil fuel corporations, who could wage campaigns against the reelection of democratic politicians. </div><div><br></div><div>How rapid is "rapid?" On 4-21-21 climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf indicated:</div><div><a href="https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2021/04/two-graphs-show-the-path-to-1-5-degrees/#comments" target="_blank">RealClimate: Two graphs show the path to 1.5 degrees</a><br></div><div><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:medium"><li style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14.4px;line-height:18px;letter-spacing:0px"> This requires roughly a halving of global CO2 emissions by 2030 (as already stated in the IPCC 1.5 degree report).</li></ul><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:medium"></ul></div><div dir="ltr"><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:medium"><li style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14.4px;line-height:18px;letter-spacing:0px"> If the world dithers for another ten years before emissions fall, it will no longer be possible (red curve).</li></ul></div><div dir="ltr">--------------------------------------<br></div><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div><div dir="ltr">--------------------------------------</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-administration-backs-alaska-oil-project-approved-under-trump-politico-2021-05-27/" target="_blank">Biden administration backs Alaska oil drilling project approved under Trump | Reuters</a></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:knowledge-regular,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px">The project has been pushed by Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, who along with another Republican senator, Dan Sullivan, discussed the oil project during a meeting with Biden on Monday, according to Politico.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin:2.22222vw 0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.6;font-size:20px;font-family:knowledge-regular,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:720px">Murkowski said the engagement with the Biden administration officials since that meeting was "very productive".</p><div style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;width:512.703px;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:1440px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><div><div style="font-size:0px;text-align:center"><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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