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How about if we save our blood and drill our own oil? Then we can put the terrorists money supply out of business. Seems too simple to me, but hey, who am I? Our wonderful senate blocks oil exploration of our land. They should be held responsible for the bloodshed.

Yeppers - I love the Polar Bears and Carribou as much as the next guy, but they're just going to have to live with pumps and oil pipes. The animals have been getting along just fine for quite a long time without help, and if placing some oil exploration in their habitat kills them off, well, obviously, they were not the "fitest".

It's not ANWAR that is the answer to our shortage. The answer is getting CA and FL to drill in their off-shore oil fields as TX and LA have done for 40 years. The selfish citizens of those two states are keeping their water clean so they don't get tarballs on their swimsuits, as we in the Gulf coast have learned to live with all these years so that you can drive to work and go on vacation. I wish gas would go to $20/gal for Californians and Floridians. In fact, the federal government leased most of FL off-shore leases soon after Bush took office. Why can't the government declare a national emergency and start drilling on their holdings there? No state is more equal than any other state, and I think the federal government controls all the waters three miles off-shore. Someone needs to start drilling, or we need to go full-bore to make all the automakers sell only hybrid cars that get 60mph by 2006, including SUVs. The Japanese have done all the research on this already, and surely it wouldn't take long to copy what's there. Saudi Arabia just declared economic war on the US and we'd better do something except complain about it.

The carribou actually LIKE the pipeline. The oil needs to be heated to flow. The warm pipeline is a good place to snuggle when it's a cold,-50F, winter night. Carribou populations have been going UP due to fewer freezing in winter

Animals are pretty adaptable. In fact, I recall reading years ago that the caribou near the Alaska pipeline(?) cuddle close to it for some warmth in the winter. That of course also drove the greenies nuts -- they thought the caribou should be pristinely facing the winter the way they always have and they were just being corrupted or something.

Polar Bears and Caribou as much as the next guy, but they're just going to have to live with pumps and oil pipes
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Do some research on the teeny tiny area in the midst of Anwar that would impacted and -
research the great new methods that would cut impact WAY down AND
talk with some folk up there that can tell you the caribou LOVE the pipe lines - they huddle up to them for warmth...