[susannah59]

there is not enough oil to justify destroying the habitat for ANWR's polar bears, caribou and other wildlife.

OK, maybe I'm stupid or something.

I live in West Texas. I don't have an oil well in my back yard (darn it!) but they are not at all an uncommon sight.

I've seen oil wells sitting there pumping with cattle grazing a few feet away (they do put a fence around the pump). Some pumps sit right in the middle of a cotton field.

I don't understand why drilling for oil will "destroy" the habitat for these creatures.

I also think that it's highly unlikely that the people who actually live closest to the proposed drilling area would want the environment destroyed. From what I've read, they're all for it.

How many caribou or polar bears did the Alaska Pipeline kill off, anyway?

[bpjam]

You aren't stupid. The arguments about not drilling in ANWR or anywhere else in the North America are religious arguments. The lefties believe with a religious fervor that oil is wrong. They don't care if you or I can prove everything they say is wrong. They will still go on believing in their religion (and keep driving SUVs). The facts do not deter them or change their beliefs at all.

At heart, they are anti-capitalists and they view oil as the blood of the oppressive capitalist regime in this country that is destroying all of the things they believe in (whatever the hell those are today).

[Flyer]

I don't have an oil well in my back yard (darn it!)

I used to. . . but I didn't own the mineral rights.

I don't understand why drilling for oil will "destroy" the habitat for these creatures

A couple of times a year the well areas would have to be sprayed with herbicide to keep them from being overgrown.