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First of all I would like tostart by apologizing. It was disrespectful of me to say you were stupid.Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. However your assumption that I don’tknow the full extent of the situation is presumptuous.
1.) Six winters ago I took atrip from my home in Fairbanks, Alaska up North to explore parts of thenational wildlife refuge. I covered over 300 miles in a little over a week,traveling entirely by dogsled. I was exploring the area with a friend and herfather and I just want to say that despite -40 degree temperatures I wouldhardly call what I saw and experienced first hand as a “barren landscape.” Ihate to invite you to my state but come take a look yourself before you blindlyaccept pictures that are manipulative and biased towards certain agendas. Afterall you’re a “see it to believe it type person.”
2.) Check your sources. I looked at the information on the sites youprovided, Anwr.org and all other links such as American solutions, and foundthe tiny print that showed Frontier Communications was 100% financially backedand responsible to Arctic Power. Although Arctic Power is non-profit they hadto pay Frontier Communications to create and maintain the site and Arctic Poweris run by a board of notoriously conservative Alaskan politicians and specialinterest groups such as (and this is the only credible thing I found on yoursite) and I quote “Interest groups represented on the Arctic Power board andthrough its membership (aka the financial bakers) are:
Alaska Support Industry Alliance
Alaska State Chamber of Commerce
Resource Development Council
Alaska Trucking Association
Alaska Oil & Gas Association
Anchorage Chamber of Commerce
Alaska Miner's Association
Alaska Forest Association.
Just take a close look at whom drilling benefits and who supports it.
P.S. my dad is the State of Alaska Forester and knows of no suchassociation that encourages oil development in ANWR related to the ForestAssociation including the government funded Bureau of Land Management.
3.) Just making sure you knowthe oil wouldn’t start flowing for at least 5 maybe even 10 years. That’s notthe immediate relief you seem to think opening ANWR would instigate.
4.) You say “right now noalternatives that are out look promising.” Maybe the big oil executives underyour so-called capitalist system just don’t want to compromise their income andmonopoly on energy consumption in the U.S.
5.) You say, “Maybe peopleshould realize that oil doesn’t last forever.” So, I ask, why deplete everylast remaining resource, adding more pollution to the world and only postponingthe inevitable fact that “oil doesn’t last forever.”
6.) I understand that oilhugely “affects everything economically.” I wish you could apply this samecomprehension to the fact that even a small disturbance to an ecosystem affectseverything within that ecosystem.
That was long. But I feel ithad to be said.
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