Reply #25: This from Barbara Boxer (in email received today) on the real [View All]

[consciousobjector]

reason the repugs want to open ANWAR:

snip> "Now we face the ultimate special interest issue: Drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. For six months of oil, not to be realized for ten years, my colleagues seem bent on handing over this most pristine land to the big oil companies. Never mind that we can save the equivalent of an infinite number of ANWR fields by simply raising fuel economy a modest amount -- that doesn't matter. The Republicans don't care about the native peoples whose lives will be ruined; they don't care that President Eisenhower set this land aside; they don't care about the more than one hundred species of wildlife that depend on this refuge.

snip> "What they do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR, they'll think they can do anything to the environment -- anything at all. Drilling in Yosemite? In the Grand Canyon? What's next?" - Barbara Boxer

All this administration wants is to set a precedent so that they can rape the entire country. If you think this is about jobs and the local economy, you are mistaken. From what I understand, the major oil companies don't believe it's even worth drilling in ANWAR...* just wants to win (and open the door to exploitation of all our protected lands)