... or they could meet America's oil needs for about three weeks. ( According to the USGS, there are probably less than 500 million barrels of undiscovered oil underneath Utah's pristine public lands, outside of existing oil fields. According to the Department of Energy, the U.S. uses 20 million barrels of oil a day. Do the math: spoiling these lands for future generations would supply our oil needs for a mere three weeks.)
The Bush administration is offering some of our most scenic lands to oil companies... (Over 80% of Utah BLM lands are open to oil and gas leasing. This includes some of the most scenic and unspoiled parts of the state, such as Lockhart Basin and the viewshed of Delicate Arch.)
... but drilling these special places won't make us any less dependent on foreign oil, and will spoil their scenic beauty for generations to come.
Care about Utah? Then care FOR Utah. Together, we can keep Utah as beautiful and unspoiled as it is today ... For our Families, For our Future.
Learn More:
- Photo exhibit of endangered Utah public lands.
- Sierra Club fact sheet on oil exploration near Arches National Park (Dome Plateau).
- Sierra Club energy policy page.
- Sierra Club energy fact sheet. Among the facts: higher fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks could save far more oil than drilling our public lands could ever produce.
- National Resources Defense Council energy page.
- Wilderness Society page on threats to Utah's National Parks.
- National Resources Defense Council page on energy and national security.
- National Resources Defense Council page on oil and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Contains a great graphic showing that the oil in ANWR would supply only a tiny fraction of U.S. oil consumption. Oil produced from drilling pristine public lands in Utah would amount to only a tiny fraction of that tiny fraction.
- Wilderness Society page on the Bush energy policy and its threat to public lands.
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The view from Delicate Arch could be
marred by oil wells...