If Alaska is a tennis court, the arctic national wildlife refuge represents a newpaper placed in a corner. The do-gooders would have you think its going to trash at least half of that great state. The natives think that drilling a great idea, representing jobs, civilization, etc. And as far as `protecting Mother Earth' the caribou population along the Alaska pipeline has actually increased.
You would think the ELF-friends would tire of sneaking up on us, trying to spackle our hind-ends with bird-lime, but every day & in every way, there they are--putty knives in hand. Zo, we wave our naughty bits in the faces of your maiden aunties, silly liberal enviro-kaniggets!
And that newspaper is the New York Times ;-)