Get out your hankeys: Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) "clinically depressed" over ANWR

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Stevens... isn't he the current überporkmeister-guy of US Senate (the last one was the 90-year old guy from WV)?

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
There's not enough oil there to justify destroying the largest free roaming herd of animals in North America. Only the most wildly specualtive estimates have it worth anything. The vast majority of estimates have it quite low.

like the cairbou that were destryed with Alaska Pipe?

[Dinner]

I believe the claim wasn't about destroying the herd but about modifying or possibly even blocking migration routes. Personally, I'm for more oil drilling but I'd like to see a hefty government surcharge put on the leases and all of that money locked in so that it can only be spent on mass transit, parks, opens spaces, eviromental clean up, and alternative energy. This won't happen but it would be very nice.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

It took us 4 years to go from zero to the creation of the first atomic bomb.

It took us 9 years to go from a space program that was a joke to one that put a man on the moon.

We're America, dammit! I can't believe we can't come up with an alternative to oil. We're just not trying, or not trying hard enough.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly

We're America, dammit! I can't believe we can't come up with an alternative to oil. We're just not trying, or not trying hard enough.

And we won't start trying untill the last minute because the oil companies want to get a profit from every last drop of oilo before it runs out.

[Ted Striker]

Rufus and Odin are 100% correct.

We could do it VERY EASILY if we REALLY WANTED TO.

The damn diesel engine was designed to run on any kind of oil, including plant sources, for over 100 freaking years already!!!

[Drake Tungsten]

What does this fanciful Plan C have to do with the issue at hand?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
What does this fanciful Plan C have to do with the issue at hand?

Disrupting a pristine wilderness for the relatively small amount of oil in the ANWR only makes sense if our energy policy is driven entirely by the assumption that there's no alternative to oil. Change that assumption, and we can leave the animals to frolic freely -- and, more importantly, we can finally relegate Middle Eastern Petrostates to the Third World status they so richly deserve.

[Odin]

Originally posted by VJ
Stevens... isn't he the current überporkmeister-guy of US Senate (the last one was the 90-year old guy from WV)?

Every senator is an uberporkmeister.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly


Disrupting a pristine wilderness for the relatively small amount of oil in the ANWR only makes sense if our energy policy is driven entirely by the assumption that there's no alternative to oil. Change that assumption, and we can leave the animals to frolic freely -- and, more importantly, we can finally relegate Middle Eastern Petrostates to the Third World status they so richly deserve.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
I'd be depressed too if the Democrats decided to screw my state by closing off a lucrative oil field as a sop to their environmentalist base...

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Perhaps we should also hold a referendum in Alaska to see what the want to do with it... the results may not be music to the environmentalists ears.

[Sava]

imran is siding with the repukes

[Drake Tungsten]

Sounds to me like he was siding with the people...

Disrupting a pristine wilderness for the relatively small amount of oil in the ANWR only makes sense if our energy policy is driven entirely by the assumption that there's no alternative to oil. Change that assumption, and we can leave the animals to frolic freely -- and, more importantly, we can finally relegate Middle Eastern Petrostates to the Third World status they so richly deserve.

There is no alternative to oil at this time. I prefer to make decisions based on how things are, not how we might want them to be...

[Sava]

people are stupid, we shouldn't let them decide.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


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Perhaps we should also hold a referendum in Alaska to see what the want to do with it... the results may not be music to the environmentalists ears.

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