[Dog Gone]

There really shouldn't be a battle at all. This area has previously been approved for drilling. Of course, the Sierra Club has to whine about something, or they couldn't justify asking for donations, I guess.

[Wphile]

Yes, and just where are those donations coming from, I wonder? I read about contributions from Saudi Arabia. If that is true, then the GOP better get on the bandwagon.

Did you see the thread about how the Senate has now forbade US oil companies from buying oil from Iraq? On the one hand, they ban exploration here at home and on the other, they ban sales from Iraq. Just whose side are they on? Saudi Arabia's?

[okie01]

"[The NPRA] has not galvanized opponents the way the proposal to open up 2,000 acres in ANWR has because it is not a designated wildlife refuge and because its wide sweep of tundra can potentially accommodate wildlife and oil wells more easily than the narrow ribbon of coast in the Arctic refuge."

A sentence that could have been written only by a.) a willing propagandist or b.) an ignorant dupe.

Given that it's the LATimes, the odds are 50:50.