Another Neal Boortz rant

[Gothic Sponge]

Article by Boortz:

TIME TO START DRILLING

One of the most sacred places to the left is the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska. They make it sound like it is a place filled with flowing green meadows, burgeoning with endangered wildlife. What they always fail to mention is that the oil-rich part is a frozen, barren wasteland. Bet you didn't know that, did you?

So now that the Republicans have increased their majorities in the United States Senate, it looks like President Bush has the votes to send the oil rigs north and start tapping oil-rich ANWR. Couldn't have come at a better time. Expect the bedwetting environmentalists and the media to go absolutely ballistic over this. Too bad. The facts are the facts.

With oil at $50 a barrel and gas at around two bucks a gallon, the United States relies too heavily on foreign sources of oil. It is estimated that 11 billion (that's right...billion) barrels of oil lie underneath the frozen tundra of ANWR and it could be tapped without any environmental damage. Drilling for that oil is a no-brainer, yet for some reason, the left opposes it. Their reason?

Hypocrisy. They want to deny Americans the ability to become less reliant on foreign oil and to pay lower prices at the pump. Somebody might make a profit, you know. We can't have that! In their socialist utopia, everyone rides their bicycle to work and heats their home with solar power. Everyone, that is, except them.

Liberals love their SUVs and rock stars like to ride around in their private jets, consuming mass quantities of fossil fuels, all while complaining about the price. But don't suggest drilling for more oil in the United States to increase the supply and bring down the price...you might harm the environment. They want it both ways.

By the way ... do you know just how much of ANWR would be affected by the drilling? Here's an illustration. Take a look at a chair sitting on a nine foot by twelve foot rug. The rug represents the total size of ANWR. Now, look at the space on that rug occupied by just one leg of that chair. Just one leg. That's the representative area of ANWR that would be disturbed by the drilling. Didn't know that, did you?

The time to get the black gold flowing out of Alaska is now.

[ET Awful]

1. Typical moronic rant from the loon.

I always love the idiocy of that chair leg argument re: ANWR.

Here's a hint dumbass, you need access roads a few hundred times the area of the drilling to allow ingress and egress.

What a dumbass.

[booley]

2. So we trade off...

an irreplacable ecosystem that is already fast disapearing...

in exchange for possibly enough oil to last abotu 7 months,

But the oil compnaies that do it will stil get rich, in tax subsidies alone.

Gee, whats' the controversey? ;-)

[hiphopnation]

3. if it's done in a way that harms the natural environment the least

and upsets the equlibrium the least, I don't know that I fully oppose this. Haven't read enough on it yet.

Of course, love the generalization. What the hell is he talking about with the rock stars?

Yeah, riding your bike to work or trying to get an infastructure in place to take the place of the oil when it peaks, if it hasn't already, so that the whole pretty thing doesn't come tubmling down on us and the only ones that survive are the mega-billionaires (psst, that's not you Neal!) is such bleeding-heart pap! Solar power? Let the whole thing burn.

PS what might look to the uneducated person as a "vast barron wastelend" to the scientist is something much, much different. What a moran.

[bunkerbuster1]

5. I'll support ANWR--with a Democratic president at the helm

I have no problem with responsibly developing energy sources in this country. ANWR is a possibility. but you don't do that without making corresponding reforms in vehicular efficiency requirements, and you sure as hell don't keep the 6000+ pound truck tax advantage currently in place.

Republicans will never propose responsible conservation efforts. So long as this is the case, the Dems need to filibuster this crap.

[rockydem]

4. the fuckwad makes it sound like a moonscape - IT'S NOT

"The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge protects the most spectacular array of arctic plants, wildlife, and land forms in the world. Designed to embrace the range of the great Porcupine caribou herd, the Arctic is also home to free-roaming herds of muskox, Dall sheep, packs of wolves, and such solitary species as wolverines and polar and grizzly bears. Why this concentration? Well, even though the refuge is immense, the habitats are actually extremely compressed. The highest mountain lies just 50 miles from the sea coast. In between range the lower peaks, glacial valleys, foothills, and the fabled coastal plain.

The coastal plain comprises the smallest part of the refuge, but it is biologically the most important. This 25-mile wide strip of of tundra is the birthing ground of not only the caribou but also polar bears, grizzlies, Arctic wolves, and the highly endangered shaggy musk ox.

The Brooks Range serves as the backbone of the refuge. This range is the northernmost extension of the Rocky Mountain chain. It stretches for 600 miles in length by 200 miles in width across the entire Alaskan Arctic. "


http://gorp.away.com/gorp/resource/us_nwr/ak_arcti.htm

[seraph]

6. I can't imagine

What makes people like this hate everyone who doesn't think just like them.

Amazing.