Arctic Refuge Safe… for Now
Senate Blocks Arctic Drilling Provision
In debate before the cloture vote, Stevens told fellow senators, “We know this Arctic. You don’t know the Arctic at all.” At issue, he said, was “2,000 acres of the Arctic,” the amount of land in the refuge that would be opened for drilling. “Is that worth this fight?”
Why, yes, Ted. It is worth the fight.
Jesus — is Ted Stevens ever a prick.
He tacks this goddamned “drilling in the Arctic” thing onto a defense bill at the last minute with the apparent presumption that people will be so anxious to pass the defense measures that they either won’t notice the Arctic drilling part or they’ll be willing to overlook it. It’s true that Stevens has brought all kinds of money back to Alaska. They love him there. They even named the airport after him. But, like Americans in the “lower 48″ before them, the Alaskans see so much wilderness around them that they don’t fully appreciate that it’s limited.
More than 10 billion barrels of crude oil are estimated to lie under the refuge, and President Bush has repeatedly urged that they be tapped to help ease U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
Bush is such an asshole. The only rational solution to our dependence on foreign oil is to reduce (and eventually completely eliminate) our use of oil period. Duh.
God, but these people really piss me off… bunch of short-sited fools.
Posted by RebeccaHartong on December 21, 2005 under Uncategorized
How long will 10 billion barrels of crude oil last? Long enough to keeep fighting in Iraq a couple mor months? To send another rocket or 2 up into space? To keep how many more SUV’s running?
And then what. O.K., we’ve taken & used 10 billion barrels of oil that didn’t come from a foreign nation. Eventually we’re back to square 1. Only it’s a square 1 with a ruined Artic refuge. And we still have to look for more oil. Why can’t we begin our switch-over to alternative sources of energy NOW? Oil isn’t going to last forever. Like Art Buchwald said back in the 70′s, “Not enough dinosaurs died>”