| Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will not solve our dependency on foreign oil. We must NEVER give the oil companies a chance to do to ANWR what they did to Prince William Sound in 1989. |
| The Bush administration has done it again. Credit should be given where credit is due. They are masters at this. They have us all arguing over whether the oil companies should or should not be allowed to drill for oil in the ANWR. And at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. Best case scenario: we go up there and start drilling. In five years or so, we start shipping oil to the lower 48. At the end of the process, after providing a small percentage of our oil needs for a brief period of time and doing whatever ecological damage (large or small) that is done, the oil runs out. At the end of the process, we are still dependent on foreign oil. We begin and end the debate there, being played like a section of cheap violins by Bush and his minions. While we argue ferociously about whether or not caribou will or won't mind an oil pump nearby, the important topics are ignored. The topics that we should be debating are mandatory fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks, alternative energy sources and energy conservation. Pursuing these solutions could lead to real energy independence. And a real decrease in oil company profits. Why aren't we discussing these issues? You figure it out! But instead, we have once again been hoodwinked by the masters-of-distraction. |
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| We need to stop saying we are dependent on "foreign oil" and just admit that we are dependent on oil, period. We must move away from using fossil fuels, no matter where they are found. | Linda Denton |
4/13/2005 |
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