It's just some lousy oil.
I was thinking, "It's just some lousy caribou".
Not that it comes down to it, but if it did, some of us would rather have the oil than the caribou. In reality, it doesn't matter, because you can have both.
It is not going to bother the damned caribou one bit to have drilling for oil on this tract of land the size of a small cattle ranch. The argument that drilling on some 2000 acres is going to somehow materially affect the millions of acres in ANWR is absurd. You could dump the Valdez oil out on the 2000 acres and it would make any difference, other than to kill a few plants and animals that don't matter anyway.
It is the same type of argument you had when the idiot Carl Sagan (RIP) got on TV during the Gulf War saying, "If Saddam sets these oil wells on fire, we'll see a nuclear winter; we could see worldwide famine because crops won't grow". Well, Saddam set the oil wells on fire, and there was no nuclear winter and the crops grew, and while there was some temporary damage to the region, life is back to normal and has been for years.
I might add that these are the same idiots that got on TV when SDI was first under consideration and said, "It is technologically infeasible. You just can't do it. It can't be done. We'll never be able to do it. Just too complex." Never occurs to them that technology changes over time. It was obvious then, as it is now, that SDI will work; and 20 years from now we may be able to protect our country from any number of simultaneous incoming missles. Impossible, you say? Well, I'll remind you that 40 short years ago you would have been ridiculed if you'd suggested that a pocket calculator the size of a credit card would be available in 10 years.
The Earth is a resilient place. It has been through a lot, and it is not going to stop now. If liberals would use their minds instead of their emotion they might see this. |
