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I completely agree with this post regarding the ANWR. I feel as if we have all forgotten what is important and money is the only priority in this country. Drilling for oil in our nation's most sacred and beautiful land is absolutely absurd. I believe that if the majority of the people do not regret destroying as much wildlife as we already have, someday they will. This administration, and the destruction of our nation's wildlife needs to come to an end.

It is obvious that the oil supply is decreasing too fast and pushing prices of gas way up. Why are we trying to find other means of obtaining it? What we should concentrate on is finding alternative ways of transportation. Americans burn up fuel at tremendous rates. Public transportation should be better taken advantage of. In the Twin Cities, public transportation is getting better. This would decrease the traffic and also road matinance. I realize that people love to have the luxery of driving their cars on their own schedules to work every day. The environment also needs to be taken into consideration, not just comfort and egos.

Well if the car companies, government, etc. would all just get off their butts and put all these new inventions into mass production, we wouldn't have to worry about oil dependence OR protecting the environment! Hybrid vehicles and fuel-cell vehicles are a clean and effecient alternative to regular, messy gasoline, but for some reason they aren't put to good use. And there's this machine that converts any carbon-based substance into oil (not petroleum though, unfortunately) but they aren't being used to transform all our trash into useful oil! The landfills just keep filling up. I don't know, but people just seem less motivated these days.

I quite disagree with you comments on the drilling of oil in secluded areas. Do you go anywhere in a car and see that you need gas? Then you pull up to the pump and pay over 2 dollars a gallon for you vehicle? 50 years ago, it was considerd expensive for gas to be over 50 cents. It is quite unnecessary for us as the consumers to be paying large amounts on money for gas when we have a large abundent supply.
I would support the drilling yellowstone for oil. That would be a terrific idea, I never thought of that! The animals there are not really wild at all. In fact, the bison herds are not wild at all. If you know about ranching, the farmers brand their cattle, in this case bison, to claim ownership. All the bison are woned by someone and are sold for meat and other by products. The governemt would get the profit out of the drilling of Yellowstone, bcause they own it. Couldn't they use the money to help pay for this large deficit anyways?
No one I know really cares if there are big oil pumps in the ANWR, because no one lives there. God put resorses on this planet for a reason. For us to use them WISELY. Wisely is also the key word. We shouldn't just waste them or let them sit when we need them.

ooh the previous comment makes me so angry, but i guess that is the purpose of the blog, so great.

if we drill in the ANWR, we will still be mostly dependent on foreign oil, and therefore, being at the mercy of OPEC and that wont help the high oil price situation.

Oil is not an energy source that is easily renewed. So why should we destroy one of the few pristine places that we have left for a short term benefit?

Yellowstone is a very public place. in order to make money, they have made it easy for tourists to visit there. Maby thats why the bison are all owned- because it is so public- that is what is so great about THIS wildlife refuge- the animals are WILD. and reason why we should keep it the way it is.

no one cares if they put oil pumps in the ANWR because no one lives there???????????

i care. and i know there are a whole lot of people out there who care. alot. because the decisions that are made now affect the future. and i am willing to pay a few extra dollars at the gas pump, if i know that my government isnt destroying a prisitine place in order for others to save some extra bucks filling up thier escalades.

The whole Artic drilling is a sensitive subject, however, know one even knows for sure what is there. There is a very slim chance that anything is even going to be drilled there because those who think there is a vast amount of oil there are over estimating, while those who think there is no oil there are underestimating.

Nonetheless, oil drilling is a very expensive and tedious process. It is not easy to do and we would have to be even more desperate for oil than we are now to start drilling there.

As far as it being this pristine virgin land of bears and happy animals...im afraid that isnt completely the case. While yes, some of this refuge is inhabited by animals the VAST MAJORITY is bare tundra.

Im all about preserving what little pristine land we have and would hate to see habitats destroyed. However, until alternative energy sources can be utilize, to hell with vast tundra, drill away....just do it in a way where the least enviromental impact is done to the current inhabitants of the land.

Joseph Goss

The only problem with this is that the spot that will be used for drilling is the coastal plain, the same coastal plain that the caribou herd uses for breeding. so really the drilling WOULD be right on top of the birthing grounds

SAME HERE!!!!!!!wohooo

Well, the bastards are already drilling for natural gas on Padre Island National Seashore. This involves running multi-ton trucks over the last nesting grounds of the Kemp's Ridley sea turtle, the most endangered of all the sea turtles. Forty trucks a day across formerly virgin seashore. And for what you might ask? A single day's supply of natural gas.

Yep, Yellowstone is next, since ANWR is mostly a publicity stunt to establish precendent. (Google "DeLay ANWR" and see what you come up with.)

Ok..... fine

Let's vote in the Senate to drill in ANWR before election day!

I live in 22541 Las Vegas, Nevada. Have you been here before?

hey i think the site is great a lot of infor was supplyed on the topic to drill or not to drill!! thanks