Re: Some Netflix rental charts

calvin <crice5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nah. ANWR is a region the size of South Carolina, and the area of
it where the drilling would take place is the size of Dulles airport.

The "area of it where drilling would take place" is the
entire 1002 Area, which is 1.5 million acres and
significantly larger than Dulles Airport by some orders
of magnitude.

ANWR is a barren wasteland,

If ANWR is a "barren wasteland", where you live is the
other side of the moon, or perhaps mars?

In fact ANWR is a *fabulous* wilderness area with more
diversity than you are even able to imagine. The US
Department of the Interior, under President Bush's
Administration, describes ANWR as:

"The Refuge is America's finest example of an intact,
naturally functioning community of arctic/subarctic
ecosystems. Such a broad spectrum of diverse habitats
occurring within a single protected unit is
unparalleled in North America, and perhaps in the
entire circumpolar north."
http://arctic.fws.gov/issues1.htm#section3

not the glorious mountain scenery
that the mainstream media always show when dealing with the topic,

ANWR *is* best pictured with "glorious mountain
scenery", because that is what it is.

a perfect example of the media lying by the use of false images
and implication, without actually lying in fact.

I challenge you to find even one single "false image"
purporting to show ANWR that *isn't* ANWR.

Worse yet for you, I'll be happy to tighten up the
specification to what you wanted to say, but didn't!
Find even a single image claiming to be of the 1002
Area, where oil is supposed to be, that is actually not
from *that* area. (Be advized that I've posted such
challenges on Usenet before, and not one single "false
image" has ever been produced!) You've been suckered
into repeating a lie.

We didn't buy Alaska from the Russians to use it for a national

We didn't buy it to drill for oil in either. But we are
drilling, and we are also enjoying national parks in
Alaska. Why is that you would want to destroy part of
it, especially all for virtually *nothing*.

park over twice the size of Texas. It's great beauty can be preserved
at the same time that the state is used for its vast resources.
Also, it has already been proven that oil pipelines don't disturb
the caribou.

Another false statement. The Alaska Department of Fish
and Game, as well as the US Fish and Wildlife Service,
have been studying caribou on the North Slope since oil
was discovered there in the late 1960's. We know
absolutely that oil production facilities "disturb"
caribou. If the exact same effects that have been seen
at Prudhoe Bay and at Kuparuk were allowed to happen in
ANWR it would cause extensive damage to the Porcupine
Caribou herd.

http://www.absc.usgs.gov/1002/section3part5.htm

There is good reason why virtually *every* credible
caribou biologist that has ever done field work on the
North Slope is opposed to drilling in ANWR. (And keep
in mind that every single one of them was paid with oil
money and the job was to find ways to make drilling for
oil more productive. They *are* biased... towards
drilling!)

The real reason that we probably never will be able to use the
oil under ANWR is that it has become a political icon. If we

The only reason to push for drilling in ANWR is
political football.

Read what moviePig wrote in another followup to your
nonsense:

ANWR is indeed a "political icon". But what it
represents is the ideal that, at least on rare
occasion, preservation takes precedence over profit.
Now, if ANWR contained Saudi-sized reserves (or, say,
a cure for cancer), then its exploitation would no
doubt proceed unanimously apace. However, as I
understand it, the oil therein is but a mere droplet
against the tide of our national consumption...
(albeit a droplet large enough to warrant the
exploratory purchase of some steel-jawed
congressmen...)

That is *dead on true*.

use it, it will be seen as a political defeat for the left and for the
Democrats, and no doubt that is much the greatest obstacle
that would have to be overcome. This is something that the
Republicans could have accomplished when they had great
power before the 2006 election, but they didn't have the nerve
to fight public opinion molded by the left and its media.

They didn't have enough power to fight public sanity.

--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@xxxxxxxxxx
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