[Alberta's Child]

ANWR could produce, for 25 years, at least as much oil as America currently imports from Saudi Arabia.

The problem with most articles about America's dependence on foreign oil is that the author's are often woefully ignorant. Some estimates indicate that the tar sands region in northern Alberta could produce enough oil to sustain the current level of consumption in all of North America for the next 500 years. The problem is that it isn't terribly cost-effective to get most of the stuff out of the ground.

Even if ANWR were opened tomorrow, the U.S. would still import oil from the cheapest sources all over the globe. And you can be sure that the high cost of U.S. labor and a strong U.S. dollar will make ANWR oil far more costly to extract than oil from anywhere else in the world.

[pabianice]

Of course, Ben and Jerry can afford gasoline at $ 3/gallon. Typical Marxist bums.

[Lazamataz]

The United States has the world’s largest proven reserves of coal. But Mike Oliver, a retired physicist and engineer, and John Hospers, professor emeritus of philosophy at USC, note that in 1996 President Clinton put 68 billion tons of America’s cleanest-burning coal, located in Utah, off-limits for mining, ostensibly for environmental reasons. If every existing U.S. electric power plant burned coal, the 68 billion tons could fuel them for 45 years at the current rate of consumption. Now power companies must import clean-burning coal, some from mines owned by Indonesia’s Lippo Group, the heavy contributor to Clinton, whose decision about Utah’s coal vastly increased the value of Lippo’s coal.

I am of the opinion that this decision could be easily reversed.

And we wouldn't even need to redefine what the meaning of the word 'is', is.

[Captainpaintball]

BFLR

[KineticKitty]

Sorry about the size, but scaled down it's hard to see some of the details.

When I lived in ALaska, I don't remember to many people living that far north, heck for that matter, I don't remember any people WANTING to live that far north! After passing the arctic circle, (Which in well below the ANWR site), there was no desire for myself to even go exploring farther.

[Phantom Lord]

Top 10 rejected Ben & Jerry flavors (From David Letterman, 02/21/97)

10. Rocky Roadkill

9. Cholesterol Chunk

8. Fudge Wapner

7. It Came from Wolf Blitzer's Beard

6. Contraceptive Crunch

5. Last Will and Testa-Mint

4. Marv Sherbert

3. Richard Simmons' Fruit Swirl

2. Michael Jackson's White Chocolate

1. Cookies 'n' Crack

[Phantom Lord]

Top 10 Least Popular Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Flavors - (David Letterman October 18, 1989)

10. Oprah Mocha

9. Raspberry Rash

8. Norieggnog

7. Cholesterol Chip

6. Zsa Zsa Gaboreo

5. Tiny Filaments O'Tungsten

4. Uninhibited by Cher

3. Stuff-Found-in-Ben-&-Jerry's-Pockets

2. Bus Depot Fudge

1. Hitler Ripple

[Helms]

Bump for Hagen Daz

[shadowman99]

Don't forget that Ben & Jerry's are big PETA supporters, which we all know is a front for ELF (a known terrorist organization)

[finnman69]

Enviroweenie Bump

[d14truth]

"Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Made in a factory that depends on electricity-guzzling refrigeration, a gallon of ice cream requires four gallons of milk. While making that much milk, a cow produces eight gallons of manure, and flatulence with another eight gallons of methane, a potent “greenhouse” gas. And the cow consumes lots of water plus three pounds of grain and hay, which is produced with tractor fuel, chemical fertilizers, herbicides and insecticides, and is transported with truck or train fuel:"

The 'pagan religions' being taught in the public schools under the cover of pseudo-science. 'A religion by any other name, is still a religion'. And, a school teaching 'faith as fact' is known, in honest circles, as a church.