The progressive method to deal with ANWR and "Big Oil" [View All]

[queeg]

There seems to be a lack of practicality when dealing with the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, and where some oil companies want to drill for oil.

Shit, SELL IT TO THEM--here's the offer:

A--cost is $1,000,000 per acre

B--land will only be sold in 1 section (640 acres, 1sq mile) portions.

C--there will be no rights-of-way granted


What this means is that if the oil companies want it enough they can pay off the national debt in one fell swoop. ---Say they want to drill in a place near the center that will take a 20 mile road to get there. ---they will have to pay for each section they build the road on plus the section they want to drill.

640 acres times 20 miles = 12800 acres

12800 acres times 1mil per acre = $12,800,000,000

plus another 640 mil for the section to drill on.


---I say take the 12 billion, and buy Cuba or something---splurge a little.

and if the oil companies want to pave the whole fucking thing----great I say---let them buy it--its about 1.5 million acres--

that'll be 1,500,000,000,000 ----or----1.5 trillion dollars

---I say tell them we take PayPal