[seamus]

How's that for irony, the area in ANWR that "Ceasar" wants to approve oil drilling is smaller than the ranch that the Mouth of the South owns in Montana. And this great "environmentalist" wishes his president was Al Gore -- a man who would take away the right for people like "Mr. Property Rights" Turner to buy and use large swaths of land as they see fit.

Then again, logic and good sense are two traits not normally attributed to Turner.

[MoralSense]

Hey, from Ted's mouth to God's ear! If George W. can change the world as much, and much for the good, as Julius Caesar, I say go for it! Up with Western Civ!

[KC_Conspirator]

Its amazing that this guy survived and excelled in the business world. For in one sense, he knows the benefits of capitalism, yet proposes infringements (for everybody else)on it during his idiotic speeches. He is for private property but proposes to have it it conficated by the state (from everybody else).

[CedarDave]

One of two Turner ranches in New Mexico (Vermajo Ranch) overlies large natural gas deposits owned by Penzoil (I believe). They will/are being developed because he can't stop it because the mineral rights aren't his. I love the irony of natural resource development beneath the very feet of a rabid pro-environmentalist nut. Sweet!

[Abbalon]

The area where there is oil in the ANWR is pretty small. The caribou herd comes back there year after year to have calves. While the area looks desolate and mosqito ridded to us it provides some grasses and conditions for this great herd to reproduce and raise a calf to a size that it can make the migration folloing the next seasonal change.

My fervent hope is that all drilling is done from the perimeters and in as sound a way as possible. Caribou would make a fine meal. Only work in the area during the seasons when the caribou are away and quitly pump oil and use as few personnel as possible otherwise.

Just outside the oil bearing region put up shacks for hunters to thin the herds as they return to the calving grounds and the meat can be consumed by the sportsmen or sold. I think the caribou herd is worth far more than the oil. Give me a well managed caribou herd and some steak sauce.