This Surprised me, coming from the Christian Science Monitor
ANWR Facts:
Opening the refuge would do little to meet our energy needs and nothing to reduce prices.
Not one drop would come from the refuge for 10 years. At its peak, drilling would cut our reliance on imports by only 4 percentage points and the price of gas by just one penny.
Others claim it can't hurt. They're wrong: It would hurt badly. Oil companies drilling on the neighboring North Slope have caused, on average, 504 spills annually since 1996. They have released almost 2 million gallons of toxic substances, most commonly diesel, crude and hydraulic oil. Just one spill can significantly damage this fragile ecosystem.
504 spills annually since 1996: that's 4,536 spills on the north slope already. The Exxon Valdez spill hasn't even been fully cleaned up either!
The Congress has stuck the ANWR drilling proposal into the military budget bill, and sent it on to the Senate. I find it a pleasant surprise that a publication that I assumed to be conservative (read: hard right) would take this principled stand on the facts. It's a great article, laying out the truth in a manner simple enough that even the Oval Office Seat Warmer could understand it, if he wanted to learn something new.
posted by SB Gypsy | 8:49 AM
4 Comments:
Yeah - I have read articles from them over the last couple of years that break with Bush entirely. I get the feeling the editorial staff don't think he's very Christian - and I'm not be facetious; they just don't seem to hold him in high regard.
Bush Christian? What a hoot. He's the same kind of Christian as Pat Robertson, Jerry Fallwel and James Dobson. False prophets.
Hi, FLS,
Well, I'm glad that someone sees through his hypocrisy!
Hi Wanda,
False Prophet! absoutely. He listens to the voice in his head too much, and listens to qualified advisors too little. It's what happens when you have an underacheiver warming the chair in the oval office.
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