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To: i-node who wrote (138674)	8/8/2001 10:03:06 AM
From: jbkelle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576360

David, Drilling the ANWR for oil threatens US National Security by providing an additional single point failure mode that is vulnerable to begin with. We don't have enough money to guard the pipeline and even if we could, it's age and condition make it vulnerable anyway. Since it's not economical to transport the oil, we should spend the dollars on deploying technologies that would have a savings in oil that dwarf the amount of oil we'd ever get from ANWR. That's the only viewpoint a rational person can have. Republicans should champion market-based solutions, not government driven manipulation. The hard part is stripping off the distortions caused by various government incentives created by Dems and Republicans to favor their own special interests. jbk

To: i-node who wrote (138674)	8/8/2001 1:37:20 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576360

On the other hand, you haven't heard "provide for the common defense of the freaking caribou". In the world I live in you hear that all the time....and the wolf, and the bear and the white rhino, etc. etc.. and the habitats in which they live. Maybe you are not listening to the right people. In a world of excesses, not all, but some of the most atrocious acts of cruelty have been prepetrated against defensless animals. Like, what do you think of the killing of seal puppies to harvest pelts, after which thousands of the carcasses are left to rot on the ice? How many whales do you think would be left in the oceans if the environmental advocacy lobby had not pushed for a (near) world wide agreement on hunting limits? Does any of this matter or is it only what advances humans and to hell with the rest? Careful how you answer that question....you may come across as an insensitive Neanderthal as I do a wacko environmentalist. Al