Posted on 02/28/2002 12:54:45 AM PST by kattracks
Alaska state citizens can do whatever they want with the land they own. The Alaskan State Government can do anything it wants with the land it owns. The ANWR belongs to the whole U.S., including those living in the 'lower 48.'
I live in California. I gather you live in Washington. We both get a portion of our oil from the North Slope. We both also use nuclear power.
Just out of curiousity, do you believe the citizens of Nevada should have a veto in the placement of a nuclear waste disposal site in their state?
Your a Californian who has never been to Alaska, nor do understand the state as a seperate entity from the rest of America. Some people get ti right away...others never do. That oil belongs to Alaska and it's citizenery, and they should be able to do with it what they want....not what you think should happen.
I'm sure you must know know that that deal has been abrogated in the current energy bill, which sets the level for ANWR oil at 50% to Alaska, the same deal given to every other state for oil extracted from federal land.
You're a Californian who has never been to Alaska, nor do understand the state as a seperate entity from the rest of America.
Yes, that is right- I don't understand. The Territory of Alaska was bought by the federal government from the Czar of Russia. Whatever it hasn't given away or sold it retains.
Alaska has twice voted to secede from the US and was voted down both times. If it ever comes to pass that they do get out....I'm moving back in a heartbeat!
Have you mentioned this on the Civil War threads? Some folks are so much in favor of secession that they would probably move too, even if it is to the North rather than the South.
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Alaska has the oil, which will be drilled and piped and loaded by Alaskans (native or temporary). The question is not if, but when.
I'm sure you must know that deal has been abrogated in the current energy bill, which sets the level for ANWR oil at 50% to Alaska, the same deal given to every other state for oil extracted from federal land.
So do you jump for joy everytime a state's rights are violated? I call it being sold out. I can only assume that you live in the city...because you have seem to have absolutely no regard for 'country common sense'. If you are from the city, please stay there.
I never said I agreed with the new plan. I don't think it is fair to change the deal after it has been agreed. I was pointing it out to remind you that there has been a sell out.
If you are from the city, please stay there.
No, raised in the country, though living in the city now. Hope to get back to the country, despite your suggestion.
When you live in the back country and don't see anybody for weeks at a time, you don't have to put up with the BS. We fought for six year's with the government, and never received any compensation from the government for stealing our mining claims. It is now a U.N. bioshere in Alaska, called the Wrangell St. Ellias preserve or some such title. What it really is part of the U.N. "corridor" they are trying to tie together from Alaska through Canada and the United States all the way to Mexico.
I guess though if you've never tasted freedom you couldn't understand. From where I stand though, leave the city behind you if you do come out to the country.
All this time there is perfectly good farmland right here in the US but the government won't let anyone farm there. Why? Well, crtain critters are mentioned, odes are composed to "pristine land", Birkenstock wearing coffee shop denizens who never leave the big city gaze longingly at postcards with photographs of this land reproduced on them as they sip their espressos, etc.
Now someone suggests letting people farm this land. And you come along saying, "no way, food prices are too low. Let's hold out for higher food prices! That's just good business sense!"
I think you're missing the point. Who will be paying these higher prices you crave so much? Prices which, by the way, are paid not only in money but in a loss of political freedom, and in blood as well.
We should encourage our government to use semi-monopolistic protectionist practices to squeeze every last penny from... ourselves?
Heck, why stop there. Why not have the federal government shut down any and all domestic energy production whatsoever, so that the prices go sky high and we're even more dependent on the whims of foreign warlords. That'll show...uh, us!
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