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We should not drill in the anwr

i believe we should not open the ANWR(Artic Naitonal Wildlife Refuge) for oil drilling.


  • NO WAY!!!!!
    Before you tell your view, please understand mine...
    (i understand its a bit long)
    Everyday you see it. You stop at the pump and watch with looming dread as the money scale adds up. You walk inside the gas sation and drag out your purse or wallet. You let out a painful sigh as you hand your money to the cashier knowing you'd be back at that pump in the next few days doing this painful tradition thatmakes your world go round.
    Oil. Gas. We need it and that's that. What we don't need ist he insane prices we must pay. We want a solution NOW. So when a small 2,000 acre plot of land on the costal plains of the ANWR or the Artic National Wildlife Refuge reported that it could hold a large supply of oil, many people jumped to get their hands on it.
    But many did not. Many people stopped and took just moment to think about what they were really doing. The ANWR is the last great wilderness of the U.S. Animals from wolved and polar bears to whales and birds make their home here and depend on it for survival. Its all they have left, all we have left and the government wants to swallow it whole to make a flimsy worthless fix and a quick buck.
    Its worthless for oil industries to drill in that 2,000 acre area. They say it will help us, drive prices down. But did anyone take a moment to hear how far prices will fall? Or how long it would take for something to really happen? Then let me tell you, 15 years from now in the year of 2022 you will get a total of(drum roll) 2-4 cents per gallon back into your pocket. Arn't-you-lucky?????... The truth is this will make little or no impact on the oil prices of our future. What we need is another way out, an alternate energy.
    Those people who took a moment to think realized we can not drill in the ANWR, we would be destroying the last great wilderness of the U.S.A. forever, and what would we get out of it? One more year of high prices, and one more year of oil industries making more money that you or me will ever see in our lives. The ANWR needs to be protected, if it goes what goes next? Yellow Stone? The Boundary WAters? I cannot imagine the sadness of the day when every inch of wilderness in the USA is nothing more than one big oil industry. What a happy future that could turn out to be......
    Now....here's what oil industries say: They belive it will be the largest find since Prudhoe Bay-and if you don't know anyting about that bay i'll tell you it is an oil industry only 60 miles south of the ANWR. Its huge streaching 640,000 acres. Now....lets take a moment to think here. How could 640,000 acres fit into the suggested 2,000 acres? I mean that's how big oil industies claim it will be compared to Prudhoe Bay, they'd be equal. hmmmm.....
    They also believe it is the most "enviormentally coexistent oil industry in the world." And state that, "Nothing connected with the oil industry in Prudhoe BAy ahs ever killed a Caribou." Oh...REally....., how can anyone even say that? With 400 oil spills every year and air pollution that can be seen like a black hazing cloud nearly 200 miles away(that's worse than the hear of mexico city) not even counting the 3,000 cubic yards of drilling waste and 40 millon gallons of toxic brime! And that's just pollution, what about the stuff we need there? Engery Plants, miles and miles or roads, airports and a lot, i repeat a lot of housing facatlies.
    Oil itself is extreamly harmful to animals, lets take the polar bear for example. Polar bears go to this area every year to make ice dens to give birth to their cubs every year. They are easily scared away by loud noises including oil exploration, planes, ships, and construction. They often leave behind their cubs to die in these situations. The polar bears are having enough trouble with the seemingly uncontrolable global warming;they don't need this! This is a slow reproducing species; a blow like this could horribly endanger the population and eventally lead to extinction. But noise isn't the only that can kill a polar bear, please read this closly and picture it well.

    You are a polar bear. You are the killer of the north, the most powerful land animal alive. You long black killer claws and jaws make you unstoppable. You have cubs back at teh snow den but you need to go hunting and are desperatly hungry. Your memory recalls a seal breathing hole on the other side of a small river of water on a seperate ice berg and you head off that way. You get to the edge of the water of the small river you must cross and start your way in. There is a small off smell in the water but hunger keeps you from qestioning further and you swim to the other side and get onto the ice and start towards your hunting hole. But on your way there you realize your fur just won't dry off and warm up. Your cold all over, you look down and a large patch of your fur is covred in black goop that's hardened into your fur. You lick it, you bite it, you rub against ice, you even claw at it to get the stuff off but you just can't. You try sooo hard....knowing whatever the stuff is it is killing you and you are nothing but helpless. The air around you is freezing, you skin covered by the goop just won't warm up and frostbite closes in. And slowly the most powerful land animal on the Alasken plains is dead, frozen to the ground.

    you must understand, animals cannot protect themselves, they on't know hand can't comprehand the dangers oil creates.

    Today whatever view you may hold right not in Iraq soldiers are fighting and dying for oil. Within the US there is also a fight wehre people rise to keep what they have left from dissapearing forever.

    Soldiers and animals are not made of oil. They do not cry or blood the black goo that makes our worlds go round. Those are tears and blood you see not oil. So don't igrnore the fact that nothing is happening every time you fill your tank. Ignorence is a bliss but something must be done now or bliss will turn to shame and horror over what we have don't driving mile by mile.

    so i say to you DON'T LET THEM DRLIL IN THE ANWR!!!!!
    66%  Voted for by Wolf Heart, Applehead.
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  • We have no leader today to inspire a nation
    Ending our addiction on oil is not something that people want to talk about. We can't just get off oil cold turkey. We need a leader like JFK would can inspire a nation to look to the challenge of creating a new energy source. He got us to the moon because people believed in his words.

    Who, today, has the charisma, fortitude and righteousness to challenge America to look at itself and draw out of itself the courage that created the great country America used to be? Who?
    Voted for by Brew Kline.
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