[RightWhale]

I don't believe we differ all that much. The recent USSC decision for the New London case seems to have everybody upset, but that is only because most don't in fact know the situation. Nothing changed but the state of general knowledge.

Here's a question: Alaska has a lot of other resources besides oil and natural gas. Why is development of these other resources restricted? Development of Alaska became frozen almost instantly a century ago when the Copper River coal fields were discovered, the first Alaska development freeze. Why is that?

Space resource development is also frozen. Why?

[Indy Pendance]

My guess is, the gov, backed by liberals, don't want to mess up the last 'frontier' (besides the ocean floors, that's a different issue), or the newest frontier, until they can figure out a way to make money. That's it with the gov. It's all about generating income. As everyone says, follow the money.