Edited on Thu Dec-22-05 09:21 AM by LuckyTheDog
Ya know... If I really thought it was going to be the answer to our energy problems and enhance our national security in a meaningful way, that would be one thing. But nobody really believes that. The elephant in the room on this issue is that the fight really is about wilderness -- and whether or not it is proper to ever set it aside and make it untouchable for development. The right wing doesn't want that. And it sees a chance to advance its case by pushing ANWR drilling.
But look, that oil is not going anywhere. It won't spoil. And every year we let it stay there, the better chance we have of recovering it safely or developing alternatives. Yet the GOP insists on treating it like a carton of milk sitting in the back seat of the car on an August day.
I get impatient about debates like this that serve mainly to distract people from real issues and to advance unrelated agendas.
The Senate was fend off the right's relentless war on ANWR and environmentalism. Now can we have a REAL debate about energy independence... please?
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