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To: Bobkk47

“....19 million-acre refuge is more than three times the size of Massachusetts, yet fewer than 2,000 acres of the Coastal Plain would be impacted by oil production.”

A little calculator work shows that this area is equivilant totaking a football field along with both end zones and exploring and drilling in three square inches of it...

THREE SQUARE INCHES out of a friggin’ football field!!!!!

That ain’t gonna hurt any caribou!!!!!!!


41 posted on 04/29/2008 10:29:28 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: Boonie

The football field analogy is he same one I use. Gets people thinking.


54 posted on 04/29/2008 1:29:47 PM PDT by MarkeyD (Just another country bumpkin looking forward to Fred!)
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