12/13/2005
Secretary Snowmobile Speaks
Gale Norton at the Heritage Foundation (WaPo via Carpetbagger Report):
"ANWR would supply every drop of petroleum for Florida for 29 years," she told a friendly audience at the Heritage Foundation yesterday, "New York for 34 years, Illinois for 43 years, California for 16 years or New Hampshire for 315 years."No, when you use statistics to lie, that's when you get a deceiving picture.
So how many years would ANWR's oil keep the whole country fueled up?
Norton balked at the question. "When you look at it for the whole country, you really get somewhat of a deceiving picture," the secretary answered. She said that's "not the way this operates," and said the question "assumes that unless a source of energy is going to meet all of America's needs then it's not worth looking at."
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