Excuse, us. We have a claim to that oil as well. Hello, Alaska, anyone?
I suppose mac daddy obammy is too busy playing footsie with Reggie Love to make sure our claim to those potential resources is properly represented.
A lot of this excitement is based on assuming the worst case predictions of the global warming alarmists, i.e. in a few years beautiful women in bikinis will be sunning themselves on white sand beaches north of the Yukon territories.
Why does everything have to be about race?
The only reason to try and drill for oil off the Artic North Slope is because it was considered too impossible to accomplish at a profit and was therefore made the only legal place to drill by the Amerikan Feral government.
The only logical place to drill for oil is onshore, the better the climate the easier to accomplish safely.
Don’t I recall similar claims from years ago made about recovering oil from shale?
All this time I was led to believe the North Pole was in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. This could be a precedent to all kinds of crazy claims, such as China’s recent ocean area...er...acquisition...