That’s not ‘the real ANWR” - those are just bad photos. I’ve got a number of images on my website I’ve taken in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in Section 1002, here.

By the way, I edited your post to make the link more user friendly - but it’s the same link.

Cheers

Carl

This will show the real ANWR. Stopr drinking the socialist/environmental koolaid!

Thanks for your comment.

Trust me, the irony of the situation doesn’t escape me. Not just the oil used to get to the Refuge (though I didn’t ride in a SUV, but my small 4-cylinder pickup), but also the products used on the trip: synthetic materials such as plastics, gore-tex, nylon, etc are all a products of oil. I’m well aware of my oil consumption, and I do make efforts to keep it to a minimum. But your argument here is rooted in the premise that there are no alternatives, which is not the case, and also that opening places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to gas and oil extraction will make a real difference in, for example, the price we pay at the pump for gasoline. Have you read the recent study, called for my Sen. Ted Stevens (R. - Alaska), that suggested drilling in the refuge would MAYBE lower the price of oil by $0.75 a barrel, or $0.02 a gallon. So 2 cents a gallon difference in the price, 10 years from now. That, to me, is not worth the damage it will inevitably bring. The US simply does not have the oil supply to feed its consumption. That fact alone points to the root of the problem: we’re living on credit. To use your argument, ‘why don’t you want someone like you 50 years from now to have gas to save human lives’? What right do you or I have to consume all the oil in existence and leave nothing for future generations? It’s exactly the same thing you’re submitting above.

Cheers

Carl

Neat site and pretty pictures. How did you get there walk? I doubt it, you rode in an airplane and burnt lots of gas, rode in a nice SUV, and warmed your supper with LP all burning more gas. Why don’t you want someone like me to have gas to save human lives. You guys have yet to offer any solutions you just don’t want the rest of America to have any thing. In America you don’t have to buy gas if you don’t want to, but some of us need it to do something useful, like fuel police cars, firetrucks, ambulances and helicopters to save lives. by you being in the way you make it harder and more expensive to do our job. Enjoy the rise in cost for your healthcare.

Thanks for posting - and yes, that’s pretty much what it’s about, it seems.

Cheers

Carl

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Thanks for your great post. I had to laugh at your closing statement, how true!!!
I’m not sure the answer to your question about oil sold o/seas versus oil sold here - I understand most oil is considered a fungible commodity, and so they don’t restrict where’s sold. I believe the last few proposals to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have included a clause that says the oil must not be sold overseas, simply to prop up the proposal and garner some support. The big deal, of course, is that it wouldn’t make a dent in our oil import/export balance even if all the oil from there is consumed locally.

I agree with you about Congress’ responsibility to consider record profits in an industry that is largely contributing to economic hardship and ever decreasing disposable income for the general populace. Perhaps if we had an administration who were not all ex-oil people, we might have a different situation at the moment.

Cheers

Carl

Why doesn’t Congress do something about the fact that oil companies are reporting record profits while I’m showing a record deficit in my budget?

I’ve written more letters and sent more emails to Washington vetoing drilling in ANWR that I could probably buy a tank of gas with the cost in postage - and now I need to do it again. Even my 3 year old granddaughter understands the word no.