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Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (保护区) (ANWR)
Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (保护区) (ANWR)
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2024-02-25
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问题
Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (保护区) (ANWR) to help secure America’s energy future? President Bush certainly thinks so. He has argued that tapping ANWR’s oil would help ease California’s electricity crisis and provide a major boost to the country’s energy independence. But no one knows for sure how much crude oil lies buried beneath the frozen earth, with the last government survey, conducted in 1998, projecting output anywhere from 3 billion to 16 billion barrels.
The oil industry goes with the high end of the range, which could equal as much as 10% of U. S. consumption for as long as six years. By pumping more than 1 million barrels a day from the reserve for the next two to three decades, lobbyists claim, the nation could cut back on imports equivalent to all shipments to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia. Sounds good. An oil boom would also mean a multibillion-dollar windfall (意外之财) in tax revenues, royalties (开采权使用权费) and leasing fees for Alaska and the Federal Government. Best of all, advocates of drilling say, damage to the environment would be insignificant. "We’ve never had a documented case of an oil rig chasing deer out onto the pack ice," says Alaska State Representative Scott Ogan.
Not so fast, say environmentalists. Sticking to the low end of government estimates, the National Resources Defense Council says there may be no more than 3.2 billion barrels of economically recoverable oil in the coastal plain of ANWR, a drop in the bucket that would do virtually nothing to ease America’s energy problems. And consumers would wait up to a decade to gain any benefits, because drilling could begin only after much bargaining over leases, environmental permits and regulatory review. As for ANWR’s impact on the California power crisis, environmentalists point out that oil is responsible for only 1% of the Golden State’s electricity output--and just 3 % of the nation’s. [br] We learn from the second paragraph that the American oil industry ______.
选项
A、shows little interest in tapping oil in ANWR
B、expects to stop oil imports from Saudi Arabia
C、tends to exaggerate America’s reliance on foreign oil
D、believes that drilling for oil in ANWR will produce high yields
答案
D
解析
根据提干the second paragraph提示定位到文章第二段,本段第一句“The oil industry goes with the high end of the range...”意思就是说这些石油企业更愿意相信 160亿桶这个最大数(第一段末尾曾提到,根据1998年政府所做的最新查勘,那里有30亿到160亿桶原油储量),他们认为这些石油可以供给美国六年中所需石油总量的10%。
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