Stop Big Oil's Push to Open the Arctic Refuge »
Posted by: hurr1 3 months ago121 Comments Report this Story
Gas prices are rising. Oil execs testified before Congress the other day that their solution is to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. Please act now to protect the Arctic Refuge. Go to the The Petition Site and...
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hurr13 months ago
Our own government estimates that drilling in the Arctic will only affect gas prices by two pennies per gallon ... in twenty years. But our polar bears could be extinct in 50 years.
If you believe polar bears and their Arctic Refuge home are worth more than two cents per gallon, tell your senators to protect the Arctic Refuge permanently
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slate3 months ago
Alaska is 656,425 square miles in size, ANWR is 800 square miles, which is a blip on a map in comparison.
To put that in perspective, Texas is 17,656 and the entire 48 lower states combined are 3,717,813 square miles, or 5.6 times larger than the one state of Alaska.
Let me see if I have it clear, you're trying to tell us that drilling with the most modern technologies we have today is going to endanger the entire Polar bear population of this massive state?
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HannibalBarca3 months ago
No slate, it is not the actual drilling thatdoes the damage,I have worked for 32 years in the Canadian north and it is the same as Alaska.
The damage and impacts come from the workers going to and from the rig, the trucks that bring in supplies, the pipelines that have to be built above ground and a host of other supporting casts actions.
Remember the disaster of the Exxon Valdez had nothing to do with drilling, in fact when a rig leaves a drill site it is clean, very clean.
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Wolfie20073 months ago
Our own government did not say that Sen. Charles Schumer said that opening ANWR would only reduce the price of gas a few cents. Then a few days later contradicted his own math. Drilling in the ANWR will not hurt the environment there, after all it's only a frozen swamp. The same things were said about the Alaska Pipe Line that it would destroy the caribou population now we know it helped the population greatly.
I really don't put much value on polar bears and there are more than enough of them already.
I have been sending email to my Senators to start drilling immediately.
I consider anyone against drilling in ANWR, off shore or anywhere else anti human. Humans and their needs trump polar bears or any other plant or animal on this earth. I want to sign a pro human petition.
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HannibalBarca3 months ago
The Alaska is in the middle of a vote right now about a new pipeline which will be built by a Canadian company, drilling for more oil is not the problem from Alaska, it is getting it to the refineries, the pipelines are full, so drill all you want, shipping is the only way to get it south
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slate3 months ago
There is nothing wrong with trying to have alternate fuels, but that takes time, and in the mean time we are still dependent on oil. Drill for today, come up with alternatives for tomorrow, the sooner the better but in all honesty, changing the entire country to another source will take many years.
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CRYMTYPHON3 months ago
Wolfie2007 said: "I consider anyone against drilling in ANWR, off shore or anywhere else anti human. Humans and their needs trump polar bears"
I have always been pro-human. Many of my close friends and relatives are human.
And the needs of humans do trump polar bears.
The problem is what humans need.
Drilling in ANWR won't solve the oil crisis; but it may put an end to our last decent wildlife refuge.
We need an energy plan that goes beyond drilling more and faster.
We also need polar bears. We need the wolves, the seals, the whales, the salmon, the fireflies, the wild geese that fly in the northern sky. It is nature; it is the heart of life and without it humans are biological concrete excreters with less sense of life or purpose than a rabid wolf.
Save the polar bears = save the humans.
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jordan113 months ago
Humans and their needs trump polar bears or any other plant or animal on this earth.>>>>
Wow. Now there's a mouthful of disrespect.
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aniokly3 months ago
It is not Big Oil companies that want to dig for Domestic oil, it is the American people who are tired of paying $5. a gallon of gas on the way to $7. a gallon. Time has run out for Democrats to play silly games with energy prices. We want Domestic oil, and we want it now. Don't vote for anyone in November that won't liberate us from Democrat energy tyranny
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slate3 months ago
Build more refineries then,,,,, this game will make our country crumble if we allow things to just keep on going,,,,, until alternative ways that are cheap enough for the lowest incomes of this country are brought forth and in available enough to be on most street corners like gas stations, we will need fossil fuels...... we have it right under us,,,, and in Alaska and off our shores,,, why would you rather us go into a resession instesd of drilling for ot so the poor can afford to eat and move about? Is it because you want things as bad as possible so you can blame the right for the ills of the planet?
I really try and tell myself that the left isn't that shallow but now I'm beginning to doubt that.
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slate3 months ago
Tessy, you do know that even the 'alternatives' will need to be manufactured which means land that will be 'raped' to build not only the massive infrastructure to make said product but; materials to build them. Which also means pollution on yet another massive scale, and most likely some sort of critters will inevitably die don't you?
You do realize that there will be insanely obscene profits made on the new technology that will dwarf the already existing oil industry?
Are you going to be ok with that?
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nostalgia3 months ago
Yea Tessy! - more corn/ethanol and let's see how high food prices will go!
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aniokly3 months ago
Sorry ,that old story won't work anymore. Global Warming, save the whales, don't drill domestically is a crock of crap. There are plenty of resources for my great Grandchildren, and yours, and theirs. We stoped believing that phony Scientific hoax a long time ago. You've been predicting dire consequences for decades, and nothing happened. It is time to take control of domestic oil production, and let your friendly Arabs drink theirs. There are no alternatives, if there were I am sure the Hillbilly *hore Hopper would have solved the problems when he was President.
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engineer3 months ago
Aniokly
Get over it! The Neocons have been in power in congress since 1994. They've had the entire government since 2001. the majority in Congress is blocked by Mitch McConnell and his Neocon horde
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jmopinion3 months ago
If the democrats get elected they will have no choice but to agree to drill every where they can and they will be OK with it because a democrat is making the decision. It is kind of like welfare reform where there was doom and gloom but it worked out best for everyone. It is getting to the point where we will have no choice but to drill every where we can.
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jordan113 months ago
LMAO! Who is 'we' ani? A few immature, uneducated know nothings? How's EXXON doing with paying for the ecological disaster they caused decades ago?
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ADAGUY3 months ago
Before you mouth off about Clinton, ask yourself what gas cost throughout his two terms?
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slate3 months ago
I think he was the guy that had the office before Dumya the Chimp guy? Do you kinda see my point?
I don't like the silly name calling on all sides. But the answer to your question is,,,, she got it from the last paragraph of pg. 1,000 of the 1,000 pg. text book used in How Make Up Silly Names for your Hated Politicos 101; the rest of the textbook is used by those on the left against Republicans. I've heard that there is a move on campus to have that one paragraph about Democrats struck though.
Now I will remove the tongue from my cheek.
Why is it that on and 'adult' site, the level of such childishness is so high from both sides of the isle and why is it, that both sides only see it when the other says something about their side but no the other? Pretty interesting thing to ponder.
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slate3 months ago
I'm with you CRYMTYPON I'm going to stop playing with those that use that kind of language on either side, which unfortunately will limit the site, since it seems to be a very prevalent thing coming from a core group on the left and right.
Not only the silly names made up, but also the abject vileness projected towards others in the threads for having a different view on any given topic. There is nothing wrong with being passionate about your stance, but you should be able to get that point across without being insulting.
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joey-evans3 months ago
Actually she is just jealous. She never in a million years will get to enjoy being the one hopped on.
Just sayin'
JOEY EVANS
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Albmore3 months ago
Yes we need to drill but also we need to alter our present energy policy. I have to say we have known of this problem atleast since the 70's and now over 35 years later not much has been done and as I recall over the last 35 years most of the time a republican was in office. Not to say though that Billy boy or Carter was much of a help. Time for change!!!! Time for new policy. Time for Obama.
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slate3 months ago
(((The sooner people realize we don't need petroleum, the better. There is nothing good about it at all.))))
You do realize that if you look about the room you're sittign in 99% of the stuff has been made with Hydrocarbon based by-products? Gasoline is only one use for oil.
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kboy3 months ago
It is time for the Green's/Democrat's to get off their rear ends and stop blocking energy sources. The impact on ANWR will be very small. It might even help the Polar Bears. We need to drill in the oceans on both coasts in spite of being seen from family compounds. We need to stop wasting money on farm handouts causing food to go to ethanol and taxing cheaper imports so food prices go up and politicians get rich. We need to build newer and more efficient refineries. This is why articles like this are so stupid. Add some more mercury to my light bulbs and do away with my pilot lights.
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Albmore3 months ago
kboy- I agree that the green dems have something to do with the policy, but it is the Bush family who has made its money along with their friends the Saudis with our current policies. They were in bed with the Devil and now the DEVIL IS TELLING THEM TO GET OUT! They gave Georgie boy a bicycle as a gift. He was looking for some help on the oil problem. A BIKE!! Whats that telling you?
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Albmore3 months ago
Aniky- "Americans are not going to give up there automobiles not matter what." Well alot of Americans said the same about their homes, their privacy , their jobs. All gone under the present president and McCain offers little change in policy. "War ended in 2013" is he Nostradomas now. Who knows what will be in 2013?
It is the hard headed voters like you and the Clinton followers that want the same old politics and then sit back and cry about whats going on for another 4 years. Thats why the president who has one of the lowest ratings in ever was re-elected.
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hurr13 months ago
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to caribou, snow fox and millions of migratory birds. It is also the most important onshore denning habitat for America's vanishing polar bears.
But this natural treasure is constantly under siege. Time and time again, the oil industry and their allies in Congress have sought to open this special place to harmful new drilling, threatening all of the wildlife that depend on it for survival.
And now President Bush has called for drilling in the Arctic Refuge by 2010 in his new budget proposal!
We need to
