Your confirmation bias is showing.
Do you have evidence that it will damage the region?
Is that a joke?
Drilling will clearly damage the immediate area, both at the drill site, the need for humans to live there, and events such as oil spills. It destabilizes the permafrost, disrupts migration patterns and habitats.
The land is also difficult to restore, as discussed in a recent NYT article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/climate/arctic-drilling-anwr.html
It cannot be adjusted for a lower flow.
Yes, it can. There are several options, including warming the pipeline. The question is whether it's worth the cost and effort, as Alaskan production is gradually falling.
So? At some points the price will rise again. There is a cyclical process to the price.
lol
No, that's not how oil prices actually work. There are some short-term cycles (e.g. higher demand in summer as people tend to travel more), but long-term there is no discernable long-term price cycle. Prices respond to the vagaries of supply and demand, neither of which indicate such a desperate need for oil that we must drill in remote, pristine, protected wilderness.
Production is why there is another push to open ANWR. Because the current production is too low to keep a pipeline viable.
Try again.
Energy companies aren't the ones pushing this; they aren't even interested in expanding their operations in Alaska. That should be evident by them shutting down operations that cost them billions to acquire the rights.
And again, your idea here is completely backwards. If the pipeline is not needed, then it is not needed, and we should not try to increase access to unwanted supply in a foolish attempt to keep a pipeline running.
There you go again,. assigning blame via confirmation bias.
Do you ever think with logic and without hatred?
:roll:
Please. Don't even front. Or perhaps more aptly, don't fool yourself into thinking that
ad hom attacks make up for your total lack of effective arguments on this topic.
It is obvious that opening up ANWR is mere politics, meant to appease Murkowski, and generate phantom funds to justify the massive tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations, and to score political points.