ANWR POLL RESULTS
Q.1. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, usually referred to as ANWR, is located on the northern edge of Alaska between Prudhoe Bay and the Canadian border. What is your opinion, do you feel oil and gas exploration should or should not be allowed in that area?
Should 75%
Should Not 23%
Unsure 3%
1a. If answered should not or unsure: There’s a new way to explore for oil called "three-dimensional seismic" which uses computers and has very little effect on the ground. If the "three-dimensional seismic" approach is used, would you support or oppose oil and gas exploration in "an-war"?
Support 36%
Oppose 52%
Unsure 12%
Q.2. With the price of oil so low, some people say it’s a bad time to explore in ANWR because there’s too much oil now and we don’t need any more; while other people say it takes ten years from exploring for oil to producing it, and if there is any oil in ANWR, we need to find out because we’ll probably need it ten years from now. What’s your opinion - is now a good time or a bad time to explore for oil in ANWR?
Good time 75%
Bad time 22%
Unsure 3%
Q. 3. So far, no one knows for sure how much oil may be in ANWR. Some people estimate billions of barrels, while other people say there’s a good chance there isn’t any. What’s your personal best guess - are you optimistic that there may be a huge amount of oil, or are you more pessimistic that there may be almost none at all?
Optimistic/huge 79%
Pessimistic/none 9%
Unsure 12%
DITTMAN RESEARCH CORPORATION
February, 2000
