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Oil Drilling in Alaska

The House voted late Wednesday (4-20-05) to allow oil drilling in an Alaska wildlife refuge as part of a broad energy bill.

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Democrats say it will funnel billions of dollars to highly profitable energy companies while doing little to promote conservation or ease gasoline prices...

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$2 billion over 10 years to fund research into oil and gas recovery in extremely deep areas of the Gulf of Mexico...

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$8.1 billion in tax breaks over 10 years...

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The Alaskan refuge has the potential to produce 2 million barrels of oil a day for the next 30 years...

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Environmentalists fear the drilling platforms and pipelines would harm the area's polar bears, caribou, migrating birds and other wildlife...

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President Bush stated that ANWR's production would be equal to nearly half the oil the U.S. now gets from Venezuela and that the oil can be recovered "with almost no impact on land and local wildlife."

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President Bush stated that passage of the bill would "send an important signal" that the country "is serious about solving America's energy problems."

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