Alternatives Quote by Roscoe Bartlett

We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic…

— Mac Thornberry

Drilling in the Refuge is completely unnecessary when we could improve the average fuel economy of cars, minivans and SUV's by just 3 miles…

— Ed Markey

While endangering one of the most pristine areas in the world, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would do nothing to make our…

— Tom Daschle

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create…

— Bob Ney

What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), they'll…

— Barbara Boxer

Opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling is bad public policy that has no place in the budget process,. The Budget…

— Russ Feingold

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge…

— Jeff Goodell

Offshore drilling is not the solution to U.S. energy independence, and I am against opening parts of the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic oceans to…

— Deb Haaland

We can reduce the effect of future disruptions by reducing our dependence on oil, not putting up more rigs and drilling our special places.…

— Carl Pope

There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do…

— Elizabeth Dole

The worst thing we can do as a nation is taking the easy way out. If you start opening up offshore drilling, then you…

— Joe Biden

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not…

— Sherwood Boehlert