And as an extention of this we have to contend with the continuing BS of global warming. Al Gore invented the global warming business because it's simply another way to gain power, and power equals money- both something politicians can't get enough of. For as long as we allow it every a-hole will be associating thier cuase, product, program or philosophy with global warming. And since you don't want to appear unpatriotic you'll fall into that crapstorm of lies and half truths.

Whatever oil is in Alaska should be developed but we have turned over the country to the green weenie movement and believe everything they say. We're basically giving the elk in Alaska a massive area to eat, poop and screw. The extremists have invaded the EPA and wanna make everything off limits to humans, except for a few Sierra Club members. Talk about elitist BS!

And they won't be happy till they juke up the stats on land development to cover almost everywhere with the blanket of "wetlands" or such. If it rains and puddles form once every 6 years on your property and tadpoles or mosquitoes grow, it' a wetlands subject to confiscation and protection by the govt.

An oil pumping station in Alaska is no more intrusive than a postage stamp in relative size to the block you live on. How the hell did the majority of us come to believe it is better to let a bunch of animals almost no one will ever see run wild and dictate economics? If the damned elk are endangered the cost lost in the national economy could afford to buy them the whole state of Rhode Island and send them there.

The green weenies somehow got us to stop building nuke power generation stations because of 3 Mile Island 30+ years ago. Can you imagine how much more we'd know if we'd have been refining nuclear safety from learning after 30 years? Hell even when we actually have plenty of petroleum we don't have enough refineries to process it because of the greenies halting every one from being built in the past 35 years.

All these aholes want is to live in some freaking fairlyland cartoon but they don't want to acknowledge that it takes resources to accomplish their little pipe dream. We only have ourselves to blame cause we gave in to the hippy mofos decades ago.