Every time your mommy drives you to school, "some big oil buddies of Bush get rich."
You DO stand something to gain from drilling in Alaska -- less dependency on the Middle East for our oil. Wouldn't that be a good thing? Might help solve some foreign policy negatives.
And how will 'Alaska suffer' from the billions of dollars of revenue that will make its way out of the ground? I'd say Alaska will do anything BUT suffer if we start gettin' the oil outta the ground.
Do you think the oil workers and lumberjacks think of themselves as 'suffering' for having good jobs?
Hey -- oil executives make money when people drive cars. Get over it. It's a fact of life. 99% of Americans think that driving their own car is preferable to walking, biking, and hiking your way around the Earth. The fact that you don't like someone making money on that truth says more about you than it does about those evil Bush-friends.
Living in Orange County, California, when I was a kid I could see probably 45-50 oil wells within 3 or 4 miles of my house. Somehow we managed to survive. Somehow, people went about their business, birds flew, squirrels dug, and things worked out just fine. In the process, that oil helped develop Orange County.
Oil isn't all bad, KTE. And those that deliver oil aren't evil incarnate. They're people looking to support their families, which is more productive than living in a tree to protest logging for 2 years.
I've never seen a squirrel dig. Did those squirrels glow at night?
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