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Senate Refuses to Open Alaskan Refuge for Oil Exploration
AZCONSERVATIVE ^ | 17 May 2008 | John Semmens

Posted on 05/20/2008 7:21:45 PM PDT by John Semmens

The United States Senate rejected a Republican proposal to open one-hundredth of one-percent of the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for oil exploration. Fifty Democrats were joined by a half-dozen Republican senators in the 56 to 42 vote against the measure.

“Preserving the frigid sterility of this wilderness must take precedence over a scheme to feed Americans’ gluttony for energy,” asserted Debbie Dullerd of the Alaska Wilderness League. She characterized the need for fuel as “temporary.” “The human species won’t last forever,” Dullerd declared. “It makes no sense to place its interests ahead of the rest of the planet.”

“If gasoline costs too much, people can carpool, ride transit or stay home,” she continued. “We’ve raped mother nature long enough. Now, it’s humanity’s turn.”

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TOPICS: Government; Humor; Outdoors; Politics
KEYWORDS: democrats; environment; oil; satire
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To: John Semmens

Dullerd...Somehow the name fits.


21 posted on 05/20/2008 8:37:02 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: John Semmens

I’m sure Russia would love to have Alaska back.

Strategically, our dependence on foreign oil is an extreme vulnerability. If we continue down the slope of idiocy, we will be so weak, Russia may just help themselves to the oil we could have had.


22 posted on 05/20/2008 9:36:26 PM PDT by o_zarkman44 (No Bull in 08!)
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To: John Semmens

That’s too bad. They shouldn’t have waited till the Dems owned congress.


23 posted on 05/20/2008 11:13:28 PM PDT by TNdandelion ("I'm down to my last toilet paper tube!")
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To: Beowulf

ping


24 posted on 05/21/2008 6:18:43 AM PDT by steelyourfaith
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