Assume you were a board member of BP. How would increased oil from Alaska's Northern slope reduce national debt and gasoline prices?

As a member of the board, it would be in my and probably be in all the other board members best interest to get as much oil as possible in America. The problem with getting oil from Alaska is that most people in Alaska want their un touched habitats to remain un touched. They don't want to see oil drills, and with all the recent outcry about oil causing the worst environmental disaster of all time, it won't happen. I don't see BP getting any support for ANYTHING except cleaning.As a member of the board I could rant and rave about how this would reduce our dependence on foreign oil, raise the value of the dollar, and promote general growth, but no one is gonna listen.

Especially the people in Alaska, and if people start protesting other things that BP is doing, me and the other members will just be making the current situation worse by trying to argue these valid, but not oil spill related points. I always say, if you find yourself in a hole, the best thing to do is stop digging! So as a board member I would want to take it one day at a time, bringing up anything other than the oil spill right now might be a bit silly.

If I was a board of Exxon it might be different story! Right now they are the "good guys" for no reason, they might have a little more room for URL2 matter what member of BP wants to increase oil production, its just not gonna happen, especially in Alaska. I would try to increase BP's oil supply by gathering some of our lost product off dead fish.

This video source might help us with our dependence on foreign oil as well. Encourage Americans to use as much of the spilled oil as possible.

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