>>>If there is really that much oil in Alaska (drainable at a specific premium of less than 30$ barrel) I think it is very prudent to keep it there as long as other fields can be exploitet.
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>>That makes sense to me. Let the Middle East run out of oil while we still have some. Tactical.
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>It wouldn't be much of a tactic. They have far more reserves than we do.
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>Developing alternative forms of energy, now that would be a tactic.


We do that too.

Personally, I think any new building in America should be required to have solar panels. But outside of a radical policy like that, all sectors of America are developing alternative forms of energy.