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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
Remmeber, that deciding to tap into oil doesn't mean you lay waste to the environment. Unlike most I suspect, I've been north of the Arctic circle in Alaska, I've seen the pipeline, and I've seen massive herds of carbou right there, herds whose numbers are increasing.
Norway's entire economy is based on oil, and it's one of the most beautiful places you could imagine.
I'm all for conservation too, but not silliness to the point where it becomes economic suicide.
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Yea, Norway is a great example
Small population and a mostly socialist government that "takes" the oil oil revenues and invests them around the world. Because the government is basically running their drilling they don't have the energy industry clamoring for deregulation. The Gulf spill likely wouldn't have happened there because the government mandates safety equipment that US producers find hurts shareholder value.
Your declaration that liberals are anti-drilling is equally absurd. By your reasoning Obama is a radical liberal and yet when he became President he...MOVED TO INCREASE OFFSHORE DRILLING!
The objection to drilling ANWR isn't that it's going to kill caribu, it's that human activity has the potential to destroy one of the few perfectly balanced ecosystems left on this planet.
Can it be done? Perhaps if we act more like Norway...
The US doesn't have enough oil to just open up more drilling. Energy independence will only come with alternative technologies, more frugal consumers all back filled by the carbon fuels we do have in abundance like natural gas and coal which we know how to produce and use safely assuming proper regulations are in place.
-spence