OH NO!!!!!!!!!!
We cant destroy the ‘PRISTINE’ Alaska!!!
Not even 0.001% of it (for $billions in natural resources)
BECAUSE IT LOOKS SO PRETTY
So, here's the deal:
Everybody who's ever visited there, vote NO.
Everybody who's ever known somebody who visited there, vote NO.
Everybody who's ever seen a postcard from there, vote NO.
The rest of you, vote for LOWER GAS PRICES.
Let's see how it turns out...
An area as big as South Carolina with, according to the description, moss shrubs and grass with some caribou which are food for polar bears and mosquitoes, sounds pretty boring to me. The actual state of South Carolina is quite a bit more diverse and probably has at least one oil well.
All of the reasons for limiting oil drilling there are in the imaginations of the environmentalists.
Aside from a Native village at its northern tip, civilization has not dented its 19 million acres, an area the size of South Carolina. There are no roads and no visitors beyond the occasional hunter and backpacker.
Everybody knows the old saying: “If a tree falls in the forest does it make a sound?”
Well if no one sees a landscape is it beautiful?