Learning from Past Mistakes: Arctic Refuge Leasing is Not a Reliable Revenue Offset - Taxpayers for Common Sense

Learning from Past Mistakes: Arctic Refuge Leasing is Not a Reliable Revenue Offset - Taxpayers for Common Sense

Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) conducted an in-depth analysis of potential federal revenues from new oil and gas lease sales in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Our examination, grounded in lease sale data spanning the past two decades, provides a rigorous, data-driven estimate of likely federal revenues. These findings directly challenge overly optimistic revenue projections that have been used to justify recent fiscal policie…