There's a radio commercial running in Florida that puts forth the specious claim that if we don't stop the plan to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) the oil companies will drill offshore in Florida next.
Only a leftwing tree hugging moron would believe such hooey... It's time to drill in ANWR.
Just for the record, before the pipeline bringing oil from the Prudhoe Bay field near ANWR was built, the tree huggers spewed their propaganda insisting that the pipeline would devastate Alaska's fragile ecosystem. The caribou would be frightened by it and stop breeding, oil waste would spoil the land... blah, blah, blah...
Didn't turn out that way did it? The caribou herd is larger than ever and they actually huddle near the pipeline to keep warm. See my previous post here for the perspective Alaska's wildlife has towards oil development (which only takes place in winter when the land is frozen solid).
Keep this in mind... Alaska is HUGE and ANWR itself is the size of South Carolina. Yet the area for oil exploration compares to a sheet of newspaper on a tennis court. The oil available would replace ALL that we currently export from Saudi Arabia.
The lesson of the Left's deceptive tactics regarding ANWR are the same they use in regard to foreign policy: scare tactics and mis-information. But, just as they were WRONG regarding Reagan's approach to winning the Cold War, the left was WRONG about the wisdom of Bush's Iraq policy, the left was WRONG about the Alaska pipeline and the left is WRONG about drilling for oil in ANWR.
See a common thread here?
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