s dependent on foreign sources of crude oil is to explore at home. And you bet I want to open up a small part of Alaska because when that field is online, it will produce a million barrels a day. Today we import a million barrels from Saddam Hussein. I would rather that a million come from our own hemisphere, our own country, as opposed from Saddam Hussein. Replenish energy supplies with new domestic coal & pipelines GORE [to Bush]: We have to free ourselves from big oil, from OPEC. We have to give new incentives for the development of resources, like deep gas in the western Gulf, but also renewable sources of energy and domestic sources that are cleaner and better. Im proposing a plan that will give tax incentives for the rapid development of new kinds of cars, trucks, buses, factories, boilers, and furnaces that dont have as much pollution. Bush wants to build pipelines to move natural gas. I want to develop coal resources. Its an issue I know a lot about. I was a small oil person for a while. This is an administration thats had no plan. And now, the results of having no plan have caught up with America. Weve got abundant supplies of energy here, and we better start exploring it. Theres an interesting issue up in the Northwest, as well. And that is whether or not we remove dams that propose hydroelectric energy. Im against removing dams in the Northwest. Use ANWR fees for alternative energy and home oil help [Under Bushs plan for drilling the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge], the federal government would get up-front fees from oil companies that wanted to bid to explore the refuge, and eventually get royalties from oil and gas that was found. Bush said he would direct part of this money to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program-perhaps as much as $1 billion over 10 years, Bush said. We would also start a Royalties for Conservation Fund, which would use money from Arctic drilling to protect the environment and develop alternativ...
