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Sen. John McCain said this week he would not drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for the same reason he “would not drill in the Grand Canyon ... I believe this area should be kept pristine.”

The more I hear John McCain speak, the sicker I get!

...Most of the images of the proposed drilling area that people see on the evening news are misleading precisely because they tend to show the glorious parts of ANWR, even though that’s not where the drilling would take place. Even when they position their cameras in the right location, producers tend to point them in the wrong direction. They point them south, toward the Brooks mountain range, rather than north, across the coastal plain where the drilling would be....

And so once again, folks, we have the difference between the truth -- after all, the MSM is showing us ANWR --and the whole truth.

Just a question. What's between ANWR the port that would be used if they do start producing oil? I grew up right next to two large below ground pipelines that were built in the 1950’s and 70’s through Upper Michigan that never caused any problems that I knew of. They both needed about 40 yard wide clearings which made for good snowmobiling and dirt bike riding.

Some years from now people will look back and remember the ANWR "debate" as one of the biggest con jobs in the history of this country -- perpetrated by the U.S. government AGAINST the environmental lobby.

While all of these morons (including John McCain) will succesfully clamor for the protection of this wilderness area that could potentially serve as a source of 150,000+ barrels of oil per day, the oil industry will be spending the coming decades extracting many times more oil than that from their offshore operations on the floor of the Beaufort Sea.

ANWR is roughly the size of South Carolina, and it is spectacular. However, the area where, according to Department of Interior estimates, some 5.7 billion to 16 billion barrels of recoverable oil reside is much smaller and not necessarily as awe-inspiring. It would amount to the size of Dulles airport.
Question for McCain: Has South Carolina been ruined because it has an airport?
Most of the images of the proposed drilling area that people see on the evening news are misleading precisely because they tend to show the glorious parts of ANWR, even though that’s not where the drilling would take place. Even when they position their cameras in the right location, producers tend to point them in the wrong direction. They point them south, toward the Brooks mountain range, rather than north, across the coastal plain where the drilling would be.

There are very few Jonah Goldberg articles which don't teach me something new. A lot of columnists just repackage what you already know or have already read, but use a different turn of phrase, but Goldberg always gives you new information you didn't get from the other ten writers.