Not envious at all. But as I said before, I’m not sympathetic either when you’ve already received tremendous benefits, unavailable to most. And I don’t want to pay you out of the pocket of federal lands that belong to all of us. Even if we all got a cut, I still wouldn’t support it.
...but then you would be subject to the same financial stranglehold you propose to put me under.
Geez, if the oil in ANWR is your only hope for financial well-being, I’d be heading south. And again, I’ve still never heard a response on security of the pipeline. If a terrorist decides to bomb this vulnerable target, your “all-the-eggs-in-one-basket” wager will look like an extremely poor choice.
I would suggest that you initiate energy harvesting in your state. If harvesting wind or solar power is such a lucrative industry as indicated by your post #67 I am totally amazed that it is not more popular than growing oats or corn in your state. I guess it's that old supply and demand thing. With the market trend of oil prices and the distinct possibilty of $60.00 per barrel oil, drilling ANWR makes more sense now more than it makes when gasoline is $5.00 per gallon and production is still 5 years in the future at which time ANWR will not be perceived by anyone as such a "pristine wilderness".
Believe me, if oil hit $60/barrel, wind turbines would pop up all over Nebraska, and the rest of the country (by the way, wind power can be harvested without affecting the activity beneath, so we’d still be raising our crops and pasturing our livestock). Other renewables and efficiencies would also look very appealing and would be built/installed and providing cheaper energy long before even the exploration of ANWR was done. In fact, you would never see any oil from ANWR because the other options would be so much cheaper.
I suppose you believe the security of oil tankers from the mideast to be far superior than anything here on U.S. soil?
Not envious at all. But as I said before, I’m not sympathetic either when you’ve already received tremendous benefits, unavailable to most.
Because my state had the foresight to demand payment for the use of natural resources and yours did not?
Believe me, if when oil hits $60/barrel, wind turbines would pop up all over Nebraska, and the rest of the country(it's called supply and demand) (by the way, wind power can be harvested without affecting the activity beneath, so we’d still be raising our crops( in the shade of solar collectors) and pasturing our livestock). While our wind generators chop up the migratory birds from the north coast of Alaska that frequent our flyways in the fall.
In fact, you would never see any oil from ANWR because the other options would be so much cheaper.
Seems like we won't see any now because of distortions of the truth by left wing terrorists and propogation of those distortions by a biased media.
Now is the time to invest in all of that vast real estate called Nebraska.
And...who cares if we affect the ground?
Do you realize how many birds are killed each year by wind farms?
Doesn't this concern you?