Steve Pollik, the Blade's nature boy, had a wonderful article on reason why not to drill and pump oil from the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). It was in the Toledo Blade this past Sunday, July 27, 2008.Here's the link:
Perish the Thought of Drilling
I'm not going to put the article here, though, as I believe reading it in the Blade is the best policy here.
COMMENTS:
One comment that I liked was the reference to the excuse for doing the drilling: the need to increase the supply of oil for the U.S. Yet, he pointed out that the population of this nation constitues 3% of the world's population; yet, Americans use 25% of the available oil. A definite disparity that needs to be rectified not perpetuated. Glad to see Steve and I are on the same page here.
However, I do kind of wish Steve had done some name dropping. Several times he quoted words here and there from things recently said by the recent members of Congress who flew up to the ANWR, ostensibly, to take a look-see and to get 'permission' from the native folks up there to do commence raping that land.
We all know the name of one of them - and I'll drop his name right here: Lubricious Latta. I don't know if Steve just wanted to leave it to his editors to criticize the Congressman by name or whether just he wanted to keep politics out it. But I don't think that's possible. Even the bare one-word references he made have L.L.'s name on them. Would that Steve would have just said so.
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