Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Moose4
I think we should drill for oil in the ANWR. Worst case scenario, it would just be "a temporary disruption to the ecosystem" -- and the Greens seem to think those are OK.
10 posted on 08/29/2003 9:20:46 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (France delenda est)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies ]


To: ClearCase_guy; All
Your #10 --- I went to junior high school in Beaumont, Texas way back yonder right after WWII. We used to bicycle to the famous Spindletop oil fields and marvel at the wells that were so close together that often the derricks actually interlocked! Pools of oil were everywhere as were flaming gas jets.


While this photo is much older than when we went out there, it looked very much the same.

About ten years ago I took some young family members who wanted to see Spindletop out there.

I could not find it, per se! All that remained were a very few capped wells, several weed filled patches covering the still remaining pipelines, a marble monument marking the site and grazing cattle where once the tangled wooden derricks were.

A mighty big change just within 50 years!

Yet the environazis have convinced the spineless congresscritters that drilling in ANWR will destroy the entire earth!

53 posted on 08/29/2003 10:35:22 AM PDT by Budge (God Bless FReepers!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies ]

To: ClearCase_guy
I'm also all for temporary disruptions to the ecosystem that might result from tarring and feathering several prominent lib/dems.
71 posted on 08/29/2003 11:02:40 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson