the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.
So, do you want to drive your car to work or walk?
It is ultimately far more serious than your asserted choices. Fuel is what makes food produceable, so inexpensive, and shippable to those in desperate need. As the price of oil rises, the fertilizer market suffers price increases of astronomical proportions and the abundance of food shrinks, so people will starve and the democraps don’t guve a hoot in hell that they are responsible for the starvation ...
So, do you want to drive your car to work or walk?
Maybe if we stop "annoying" polar bears, their population will increase so much that we can each have one and ride them to work, like horses. They're faster than the average bear. Once we domesticate them, you'll see. Give 'em a little seal meat, and they're happy. We can replace gas stations with seal farms.