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modrepub

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2. Nobody Wants To Drill There

Reply to MrWowWow (Original post)

Mon Jul 14, 2025, 05:44 AM

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No infrastructure to get whatever oil is there to market. Would take many years just to set things up and get production going. And steel tariffs just made drilling more expensive.

Without higher oil prices or massive subsidies there won’t be anything happening.

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SO, ANWR is Doomed? [View all] MrWowWow Monday OP

Good Grief!!! I thought ANWR were protected lands! Rhiannon12866 Monday #1

Nobody Wants To Drill There modrepub Monday #2

i'm guessing massive subsidies MadameButterfly Monday #3

Exactly, Krasnov does quid pro quos, gab13by13 Monday #4

And what it does to the finances of the country MadameButterfly Monday #5

as it thaws, it gets worse. mopinko Monday #7

No. Even the oil companies admit there is currently no compelling reason - market wise, to drill there harumph Monday #6