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To: excardog who wrote (2385)	3/25/2001 6:16:21 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) of 23153

Those are both very interesting pieces. What really bothers me is the idea that drilling for the very last big oil field in our country is going to take care of our problems. I am enough of an enviromentalist to favor the demolition of the Glen Canyon Dam, but I think that the environmental argument for not drilling Alaska isn't that strong--that is, I think it could be done without doing anything like the damage that has been done to the Everglades--or just to the area that I live in, by urban sprawl. I feel the same way about drilling for gas near the Rockies. I have actually stood next to one of those rocking-horse oil pumps out in the middle of a spectacular desert and found it a lot more picturesque than a McDonald's. It wasn't making any noise and it wasn't making any mess. Condos on the beaches all up and down the USA are, to me, much more of a blight than a quietly producing well. Especially when it means you can't even get TO the beach. I wish some activist group had stopped the condos. They are a real blight on something I care about. But since it won't solve the problem, why mess up the Refuge at all?

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