>>>>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.
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>We do that too.
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>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.

That's probably true.
But I'd bet that big oil still gets more tax breaks than any business trying to develop alternative energy. Way way way more.