Friday, May 26, 2006
Just When You're About to Give up on the House...
For the 12th time since 1995, the House voted to open a tiny section of the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge open to oil exploration. Everyone is confident the Senate will filibuster any similar effort there. Since the Senate has proved itself to be out of touch with the will of the majority of Americans (and capable of only making things worse), that's probably true. The imperial actions of Speaker Hastert this week had soured many on the House too (Warrants-not good enough for us; too good for the likes of you). Anyone who votes against drilling for oil offshore or in the middle of nowhere Alaska cannot bitch about high gas prices or demagogue Exxon-Mobile, et al.
As we used to say in the 60s: If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
As we used to say in the 60s: If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 12:10 AM 
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"In wilderness is the preservation of the world."
Let's look @ the #s. I am sure there are differing viewpoints.
I seem to recall that the reserves in ANWR are a drop in the bucket so far as our consumption is concerned. I mean what would happen if people who don't really need SUVs--the majority I think and the only useful function a Hummer has ever served is ferrying a Bronco to Dove Valley during a blizzard--bought cars that were more fuel efficient?
Just a thought.
Let's look @ the #s. I am sure there are differing viewpoints.
I seem to recall that the reserves in ANWR are a drop in the bucket so far as our consumption is concerned. I mean what would happen if people who don't really need SUVs--the majority I think and the only useful function a Hummer has ever served is ferrying a Bronco to Dove Valley during a blizzard--bought cars that were more fuel efficient?
Just a thought.
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: 8:00 AM
: 8:00 AM
No one is saying that we can't have more fuel efficient cars but the bulk of fuel savings is produced by reducing the car's weight. You like safe cars, I recall. The oil is not integral to ANWR. If it's gone, the land will be the same. And it's such a tiny part where there will be exploration and extraction. No one says that the oil there will power the world for decades, but it will help and at the merest hint of a cost to the 'pristine' God forsaken, frozen tundra, mosquito clouded coastal plain that is the exploration site in ANWR. Sounds like the place has a false symbolism for many tree huggers and I find it irrational to give it such sanctity. Glad you're thinking.
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