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I know. I've tried.

I imagine this is where Obama will ship off Tea Party dissidents unwilling the accept the terms of Agenda 21, kind of like an Alinsky version of his own Siberia. "North To The Future!".

I can't wait to read about it on Sarah Palin's Facebook. hahaha

One of the big misnomers in oil and gas drilling is that in Alaska, operators want to drill on a pristine part of the Alaskan Wildlife Reserve. I am in the oil and gas business. Have a good friend who has drilled up there for five decades. I've seen pictures of the land that has the oil rich deposits. It is a frozen swamp / bog. Not anything like the pictures of pristine acreage you see in many articles.

From my perspective we need to be very careful we don't buy into an environmental theocracy where pragmatic decision-making would tell us to do something irrational.

It would be far better to find reserves in a wasteland no one really cares about than drill off our pristine coasts where multi-billion dollar gathering systems put together by the lowest bidder determine the fate of our shorelines.

Renewables are the future. We should be practical as we move to that new era.

Plants and animals don't care if their environment is pretty. They evolve and adapt and live in every corner of the globe even the unattractive parts.

I am just saying that if you look at energy needs from a pragmatic sense, the ANWR reserves are likely the least environmentally intrusive option.

I would rather full scale operate on a frozen bog than underwater West or EAst Coast.

The pictures they show us are misleading. All of us would rather risk a frozen bog than the US Coastal waters.

The oil companies will screw up our environment and then all that oil will be shipped to China!

Out of sight ,out of mind, you can spill all the oil you want and nobody would even know!