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- jevad
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/art…
Well done. Well done you fucking cocksuckers. Slow, painful, lingering death to all who voted for it. You cunts
- Terminal270
greedy capitalist twats
- Donvitoviti0
ive been there, 95% of that area is alaska desert including where they drill. Pretty much tundra.
Lets put it this way.. you would have to walk across that area for months to find a spot where they will drill.
All the pictures you see .. are like the edges of that area... it would be like if they drilled in Death Valley and complained that it was to close to San Francisco.
95% of the animal population there is bugs.
Although I think we need to move away from dilling, this is actually a great place to drill. All the stuff you hear about it affecting the animals etc. is like 10% true... maybe 1 out of 100 stations might bump up against their area.
That tundra desert is the best place for this.
- mg330
They are all too ignorant and money-hungry to see the potential to make just as much money by setting their sights on renewable sources of energy, instead of draining the world dry of oil.
It is disappointing. There is absolutely the opportunity to solve two problems at once by moving away from oil: We can avoid drilling in areas like this and not rely on foreign oil, and we can certainly improve the earth by moving to less polluting fuels.
But they are all money grubbing bastards. I don't see how people live like that.
- dexter0
i get pain in my stomach, when i read this. and there is nothing you can do.
- mg330
Donvitoviti,
Interesting figures. I've seen a show about the same thing once, and the footprint left by an oil facility would be very small.
It seems, though, like a last ditch effort because the cost of oil is going up. I believe the oil in Alaska is called the "Strategic Reserve," and had more to do with existing for military purposes and national dependance.
Is it any coincidence that oil is at nearly it's highest cost ever?
If it's 2005 and we're dipping into the strategic reserve, than something is terribly, terribly wrong. In this day and age the government should be putting it's heads together and looking to the people who want to forge a new path for the sake of climate control/pulluting the earth less.
Since money is by all means a component of this, I don't see how major oil companies are not yet starting offshoot companies to move away from oil and into other things. Maybe they are, who knows.
But in my opinion, I think every company would want to be at the forefront of that and get there to make the $$$ before the other guy.
- dexter0
@Donvitoviti you kidding, what a silly explanation. every place is not the right one for these idiots.
biodisel , no war required!
- jevad0
"If it's 2005 and we're dipping into the strategic reserve, than something is terribly, terribly wrong. In this day and age the government should be putting it's heads together and looking to the people who want to forge a new path for the sake of climate control/pulluting the earth less."
Wouldn't you think...I mean really...doesn;t that make sense? Apparently not...I am disgusted, appauled, and on the fucking warpath
- gruntt0
but jevad, my hummer needs to go varoom, varoom!!!
totally //
makes me sick too.
- mg330
I just don't get it either jevad. There were times in American history where, for good (industrial revolution, the birth of aviation, the automobile, the space program) and for bad (the atom bomb), people came together to solve a problem, or invent something that moved technology a step forward, improved lives, etc.
I wish we had a president who would stand before us and say, "We're going somewhere new, for the sake of the world, and we're not looking back." And a good ol "F Oil!" shouted at the end of the speech.
It's depressing that this is a pipe dream. I put my faith in John Kerry that he would do something to take us on this path. Bush's blood practically flows with oil, he is polluted and is a liar if he says we're giving money to science to research new energy sources.
- mg330
Oh, and it would also take a little bit of willpower on behalf of US citizens to say, "I don't need this gas guzzling SUV anymore, I want to do something that helps the world for my kids, and their kids."
I hope it happens in my lifetime.
- toastie0
it will never happen. people are too fucking passive. Until their children are dying in their arms, they're not going to do the only thing that works, which is going to Washington and not leaving until things get set right.
- Arild0
“a way to get some additional reserves here at home on the books” What a monkeyhead.
- ********0
bump for QA
- madeGB0
Not really surprising really is it. Sometimes I wonder why Bush bothers coming to climate control talks....
- spiralstarez0
whether the drill can be done with minimal damage and effect on the area is beside the point.
What is obvious is that it is a money grab.
Republicans quietly dismissed a report that just a 3% decrease in oil consumption alone over 1 year would be a greater amount of oil that what is projected to be retrieved from the Alaskan drilling area.
Fuckers.
- robbie_m0
jevad and his suv are on the warpath?
- ********0
robbie - I get more MPG on the highway than a fucking civic - k?
- robbie_m0
a '92 civic?
- madeGB0
You really drive a honda civiv? wow, am quite impressed...
- pocho0
what adds to the insult is the Bush administrations refusal to encact the minimum MPG rules for SUV's.
AND that they took a backdoor to the whole refuge drilling scheme by attaching it to the budget. That's like telling the states "you can have this budget money, bu you must also pass this". Bullshit, absolute bullshit.