Reply #22: 2% conservation = ANWR output over 50 years [View All]

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If the administration were really interested in national security, they could propose conservation measures that would equal the ANWR reserves such as:

...buying a car that gets 30.6 mpg instead of 30 mpg

...workers carpooling to work 5 days out of the year instead of driving by themselves everyday

...driving 1,470 miles in a month instead of the normal 1500.

...That's turning down the thermostat by a small amount

And more....


I don't believe this has anything to do with national security or with the price of oil. Oil firms had remarkable, record profits this year . High oil prices make friends of this administration (corporate friends and Saudi friends) quite happy. Low oil prices is not their goal.

We will drill in ANWR. The habitat will suffer (don't trust any gov't study that says otherwise). Alaskans will not get rich. Oil companies, their boardmembers, and their shareholders will get rich. AND NOT A SMALL AMOUNT OF THAT MONEY WILL GO TO THE GOP PARTY THAT GAVE THEM THE WINDFALL!

Do not believe that this administration will be responsible in requiring environmental safeguards, either. When profits and public interest compete, this administration has no problem coming down on the side of profit. This will not be done right.

These lands are the public commons. Read JFK jr.s book Crimes Against Nature. Bush has made a living in Texas and as president giving away public treasures.