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Environmental groups oppose the plan, saying drilling would destroy a scenic place sometimes called "America's Serengeti" and would also fail to yield any sizable amount of oil for several years.

I find it odd how not getting an appreciable amount of oil for several years is a valid argument. It would take a few years just to get the operation online once they started. In any case it is a long term project. What do they expect, that the oil will flow immediately and abundantly. This study doesn't seem to provide much in the way of concrete evidence

"America's Serengeti"

Hey, this is Alaska, you idiots. The entire Serengeti plain isn't a broom closet in the AWNR. Besides, no self-respecting giraffe would be caught dead in the Arctic.

I find it odd how not getting an appreciable amount of oil for several years is a valid argument. It would take a few years just to get the operation online once they started. In any case it is a long term project. What do they expect, that the oil will flow immediately and abundantly.

I'm with you, if it's gonna take ten years...then get humpin and pumpin.

Interesting story...We bought a large office building and one of the tenants' was a lawyer's office that had never paid rent since moving in six months earlier. When I confronted Mr. Schwartz, the lawyer, I told him that I did not care about the prior six month's rent...only start paying now! He informed me that it would take me approximately one year to evict him...guess what? It did take a year. Glad we sued immediately.

BTW, Mr. Schwartz was very surprised when the sherriff's office showed up one day and started moving all the furniture/equipment to the street...it was SWEET (I took pictures)