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RightatNYU said:Then I'm even more surprised you don't support it, the vast majority of Alaskans do.
The pollution would be carried throughout the region? Are you serious? The actual area where the drilling itself would be done is 2000 acres, .5% of the tiny little green area. Look at that map I put forth again, superimposed on the states. Do the car factories in Detroit pollute Houston? Does the oil drilling in Texas ruin the wilderness of Montana? No. And you might not care about the jobs, but 750,000 kids who are 15 years old right now are most likely going to care about the jobs. And as a side note, why WOULDN'T you care? It benefits our entire economy when jobs are created, and the tax receipts from ANWR would benefit the country as a whole.
It's less cost effective. Where do you get the idea that you're allowed to tell businesses what they can and can't do with their research? How about you go to Merck and GlaxoSmithKline and tell them to stop researching treatments for the things you don't think are important, and to focus on the diseases you deem important.
Rust damages the environment? Wanna tell me how Fe2O3 does that?
Why do you hate the environment? Why is your one goal in life to make sure we all die sooner than we normally would anticipate doing so?
I'm sorry, I've been drinking.
Honestly, if Alaskans support it, I really couldn't give less of a **** whether or not they drilled up there.
It just sort of strikes me that a lot of people expect everything to be either completely good or completely bad, and if something has one negative attribute that happens to be related to one of their pet issues, then logic and reason be damned, the penguins must live on, or something of that nature.
From what I've read, it'd either do a hella good or no good whatsoever, and either way I'm more or less indifferent, so if the republicans want to do it, god speed, Alaska has gone red every single time since it joined the US, so I guess they know Alaska better than us, and we just need to shut the **** up.
ROCK AND ROLL!!!