Quote Originally Posted by Don Shillady
I believe it was the Democrats who scuttled drilling in ANWAR and now they are the ones complaining about the oil company profits. I say paint the oil rigs white so as not to scare the caribou and build a refinery in Anchorage. The Congress had a chance to allow drilling in ANWAR with a trade to raise the CART mileage limits, but they could not work together for the good of the country! Draw you own conclusion!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder
Yep, Don, you are so correct about ANWAR, the California Coast, off shore both Florida and North Carolina. and the Democrats succumbing to the tree huggers and bunny lovers. I will happen eventually, but they sure are making it tough for the average man to live within his means. What they have done is create a feeling of entitlement for many of those that have no understanding of economics. While I have no problem with folks that are oriented to nature - there has to be a balance, and their way often is not.

I wish that I still had access to my old files, but there is a refinery already on the North Slope of Alaska at Prudhoe Bay. Then it was owned by ARCO, now it's BP. I had a lot of pictures taken by one of my Field Engineers during the 2 years he spent there uprating the power plant and compressor drive turbines. Unfortunately I can't even get them from him as he tried to fly his plane under some power lines - and couldn't.

http://planet.wwu.edu/winter03/localripples.htm