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To: slacker711 who wrote (93027)	4/12/2003 11:49:31 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

re: energy independence as a national security issue: There should be a common interest, of environmentalists and conservatives, to reduce oil imports, and develop renewable domestic energy technology. But, I'm looking at my fellow Green Doves, and I see a lot of instinctive distrust. The attitude is, if it's an idea any Republican can like, it must be wrong. There is an aversion to "waving the flag" and "making America strong", I get weird looks or no interest, when I suggest to Greens using these phrases, pushing these buttons. Or making any alliance with the "money-grubbing warmongering capitalists". I see ANWR as essentially trivial, either way. Even with full development, there isn't enough oil there to change the big picture much. And if the Caspian, W. African, and Iraqi fields are developed (all much lower-cost areas to exploit), ANWR development probably is uneconomic. On the other hand, most of what my fellow Greens are saying about ANWR, is exaggeration and scare tactics. We've got lots of wildlife happily living and breeding in Anchorage (pop. 300,000), I'm sure moose could coexist with minimal disruption with oil development in ANWR. Much ado about nothing.