Mar 172005
 

I guess I’m not surprised by the Senate’s vote to open the ANWR to oil drilling. I’m not convinced that it represents the environmental catastrophe that some make it out to be, but I’m certainly not thrilled with the decision. To claim that drilling in the ANWR will relieve our dependence on foreign oil is delusional thinking. If we believe the most liberal estimates, the ANWR contains about ten billion barrels of oil. On average, the United States consumes about twenty million barrels of oil a day. The oil in ANWR represents enough oil to completely meet our needs for about a year and a half. Yes, fellow Americans, energy independence is now within our reach. The only people really benefiting from this are the Alaskans’ pocketbooks; more oil flowing means bigger oil subsidy checks in the mailbox of each Alaskan.
I now expect to receive the severed head of a dead polar bear in the mail from some pissed-off Alaskan.

  2 Responses to “Treehugger”

  1. Did you forget about the OIL COMPANIES? The amount of monies they will make off of this deal makes our checks look like minute pocket lint in comparison. Also, the cost to live in Alaska far outweighs the PFD check that we receive.
    Please don’t encourage anyone else to believe that we actually make money from living up here… too many people already move to Alaska for that reason only to be shocked by the cost of living.

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