mention that we are all still
Save ANWR! Rid it of the dangerous oil!
(it's for the children)
When the Alaskan pipeline was built, the caribou herd was at appx 3000. Nowadays its at 36,000.
That's a lotta dead caribou. Oh wait a minute...
If Alaska is a tennis court, the arctic national wildlife refuge represents a newpaper placed in a corner. The do-gooders would have you think its going to trash at least half of that great state. The natives think that drilling a great idea, representing jobs, civilization, etc. And as far as `protecting Mother Earth' the caribou population along the Alaska pipeline has actually increased.
You would think the ELF-friends would tire of sneaking up on us, trying to spackle our hind-ends with bird-lime, but every day & in every way, there they are--putty knives in hand. Zo, we wave our naughty bits in the faces of your maiden aunties, silly liberal enviro-kaniggets!
Thinking about this, what is really pathetic is that I don't think for a second that Kerry even BELIEVES this. He's not a complete imbecile. He knows that the proposed drilling is no threat to ANWR.
He is simply trying to curry favor with the enviro wing of the Dem party, with a view to the 2008 primaries. And in doing so he's willing to sell the national security and economic interests of America down the river.
My mother, who's an insane, bleeding heart, rich, white, knee-jerk, liberal democrat sent me a similar letter from Robert Kennedy and the National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) sniff, sniff...After I sent her the following column by Jobah Goldberg, she sent a quote from Reagan "If you've seen one redwood tree then you've seen them all" and then harumphed "I just hope there's some wilderness left when your kids grow up"
Sigh.....it's absolutely hopeless trying to deal with anyone who believes this crap.....
Harldy a pretty place: Use ANWR for oil exploration
July 24, 2001 Jonah Goldberg
http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- "EVEN if there were oil, let's say, in Central Park, in the Everglades, in Yosemite Valley, in the Redwoods, do we want to develop oil there?" asked Deborah Williams in a recent broadcast of "60 Minutes." Williams, the executive director of the Alaska Conservation Foundation, believes the answer is obviously "No."
Williams is one of the leading spokespeople against oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR ("Anwar"). And this argument has been offered, almost verbatim, by Jimmy Carter, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt and a host of others. It's a strong, persuasive argument. In fact there's only one problem with it: It's completely false.
How do I know? Well, because I've been there. I recently returned from a trip (for a National Review article) to several hundred miles above the Arctic Circle to see what has become the Dome of the Rock of environmentalism. I've also been to Central Park.
So, having been both places, let me tell you what's wrong with the comparison.
First of all, if New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani learned that there were between 3 and 16 (ital) billion (end ital) barrels of oil underneath Central Park, he would be out there first thing Monday morning laying down orange traffic cones to save parking spaces for the roughnecks.
But more to the point, Central Park is in many ways the exact opposite of the tiny sliver of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge being considered for oil development. Central Park is manmade, literally. The original land was filled with shanty towns sitting on mud flats and populated by dirt-poor Irish, blacks and Germans. Today, Central Park is beautiful and millions of people move through its 843 acres either by foot or by car every day.
Now, consider ANWR. It is in Alaska, a state whose entire population is roughly equal to the city of Milwaukee, Wis. At the same time, the 49th state is big enough to fit France, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom and Italy (ital) combined (end ital) with room to spare. ANWR itself is huge by the standards of the lower 48, about the size of South Carolina, or the equivalent of more than 21,000 Central Parks.
The differences don't end there.
While preparing for my trip to ANWR, I'd read that this was the most beautiful place on Earth. This was the famous "American Serengeti," as the enviros call it. Senator Joseph Lieberman, denouncing George Bush and Dick Cheney, predicted that oil exploration in ANWR "would cause irreversible damage to one of G-d's most awesome creations."
So, I was a little surprised to discover that if you wanted a picture to go with the word "G-dforsaken" in the dictionary, ANWR would do nicely.
Actually, that's not fair. You see, the environmentalists and their compatriots in the media play a dirty trick on the public. Most of ANWR is beautiful. But the pretty mountains and lakes you see on the evening news are safe from oil exploration by law and by the fact that there's no oil there.
The oil is on the coastal plain at the very top of ANWR on the coast of the Arctic Ocean. And that ain't beautiful. Believe me.
Winter on the coastal plain lasts for nine months. Total darkness reigns for 58 straight days. The temperatures drop to 70 degrees below zero without wind chill. This is the time of year when the oil companies would do almost all of their work; when nary a caribou nor any other creature would be dumb enough to venture out on to the frozen tundra for long.
Regardless, ANWR's summer is no picnic either. The coastal plain is covered in a thick brick of ice for much of the year. When it melts, it creates, well, puddles. Lots and lots of puddles - and mud. This provides the lebensraum that mosquitoes and other flying critters need to stretch their wings.
In short, the section that Lieberman claims as one of "G-d's most awesome creations" is a colossal fetid petri dish for some of the worst flying pestilence you can imagine. Every moment I was outside, the mosquitoes swarmed around me like John McCain near a TV camera.
The myth has been perpetuated that wildlife on the "American Serengeti" is more fragile than a butterfly's wings, especially for the exalted caribou. But, in next-door Prudhoe Bay, the number of caribou has increased fivefold since oil exploration began decades ago.
One explanation for the caribou's success in Prudhoe is that the infrastructure gives the caribou an opportunity to hide from the trillions of mosquitoes, as well as the nostril flies (yes, they lay their eggs in the caribou's nose) and parasitic warble flies that make life a living hell for the animals.
Opponents of drilling in ANWR succeed by appealing to the imaginations of guilty liberal environmentalists. So they compare ANWR to places we humans go and enjoy, like Central Park, Yosemite and other of G-d's "most awesome creations."
If you don't want to drill for oil in ANWR that's fine. But don't slander G-d by saying this giant mosquito pool is among his finest works.
Hey, there's a first time for everything!
How about those who oppose ANWR drilling, continue to pay OPEC big bucks and not be allowed to buy ANWR oil?
Here's a related ANWAR thread dealing with his puppetmaster.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1363335/posts
The President is proposing allowing drilling on 2000acres of the ANWR tundra's nearly 20,000,000acres. That makes the percentage more like 0.01% - one part in ten-thousand.
Great flash movie
http://www.anwr.org/flash.htm
http://www.anwr.org/
http://www.anwr.com/archives/how_many_years_could_your_state_run_on_anwr_oil.html
How many years could your state run on ANWR oil?
This was released by the U.S. House Resources Committee based on estimates by the U.S. Geological Survey and Energy Information Agency.
Alabama 103
Alaska 203
Arizona 108
Arkansas 146
California 16
Colorado 120
Connecticut 132
Delaware 399
District of Columbia 1,710
Florida 29
Georgia 54
Hawaii 249
Idaho 363
Illinois 43
Indiana 68
Iowa 132
Kansas 141
Kentucky 79
Louisiana 36
Maine 249
Maryland 100
Massachusetts 75
Michigan 52
Minnesota 84
Mississippi 116
Missouri 77
Montana 342
Nebraska 255
Nevada 226
New Hampshire 315
New Jersey 46
New Mexico 222
New York 34
North Carolina 58
North Dakota 399
Ohio 43
Oklahoma 97
Oregon 155
Pennsylvania 39
Rhode Island 570
South Carolina 120
South Dakota 499
Tennessee 80
Texas 9
Utah 218
Vermont 598
Virginia 62
Washington 68
West Virginia 266
Wisconsin 83
Wyoming 374
*ANWR contains 10.3 billion barrels of oil, according to mean United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimates. These figures were derived based on this mean estimate and petroleum consumption for each state according to the Energy Information Agency (EIA).
Yes John! I will increase conservation!
Starting now, I will:
Replace my 15 watt bulbs with 5W night lites
Turn my thermostat down from 55F to 45F; and set back to 35F at night
Lower the thermostat on my water heater to 75F from 85F
I will install a heavier duty spring in my cars wind-up auxilliary motor, so I can go longer between battery charges to help preserve power
Thank you stopping those evil Republicans from destroying our great nation by drilling for gas & oil.
Oh, in appreciation of your undying efforts to save our country's precious environment, please find my 2 cent donation for your 2024 reelection campaign; it is all I can afford after buying a gallon canister of hydrogen for my fuel cell.
(ss)ATrueBlueBeliever@DUmmieland.nut
P.S. Please help repeal those tax cuts that are destroying us; there is no way I should have had that 2 cents left over to give you; the government should have had it to put to the common use.
It is a great idea totell us to remain dependant on foreign oil when it's over $55 a barrel and gas prices are expected to be over $2.50/gal by summer!
Woohoo, I hope they keep this dork around another 3.5 years!
Like the Cape Wind offshore windfarm you REFUSE to take a position on, Senator??
HA! There's the crux of it.