Quote Originally Posted by Tim_T View Post
I am not completely sold on drilling here for a couple of reasons. Too many people refuse to even LOOK at the environmental impact. I am all for drilling, but it better be done in as safe a manner and with as little impact as possible. If it cost a few dollars more to do it safely, who cares. I am sick of seeing places get trashed so that some huge billion dollar corporation can save $5! It happens all the time, you need to look no further than mountain top removal coal mining.

There is a situation going on with a ski resort in Minnesota right now where they want to drain even more water out of a wild trout river so that they can make more snow in order to expand there ski resort. The kicker is, they could get the water from Lake Superior, which has tons of water and would cause little to no impact, but it would cost them more money!

Here is an Aldo Leopold quote that I wish people would keep in mind when tempted to place property values over human values:
"Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays."

I wish we would do SERIOUS research on alternative energy sources, but unforunately, it seems we will have to completely run out of oil for this to be the case. After all, it might cost the stockholders at Exxon a few dollars out of their millions!
I'm pretty much convinced we don't ever get the real details about oil in Alaska and off the coast. One expert in the media says one thing and the expert from the other side says different.

I remember when the Alaskan pipeline was gonna destroy that area and hurt the Caribou migration but I don't think that happened.

The Exxon oil spill was terrible and the recent Gulf oil spill was bad but nowhere near as bad as the experts said (going on memory there).

Heck, I just think that we get so tied up in knots over whats politically correct that it makes us spend tons of money to find other ways to get things done.

The main problem I see is that politicians make decisions based on who put money in their coffers and thats destined to be corrupt. The interest of the country is way down on their list of things to do.