Poor caribou
The West Wing, “The U.S. Poet Laureate”
36 species of fish, 36 land mammals, 160 different bird species. {closes the document} I admit, this is a lot of wildlife.
{They come to a halt.}
C.J.
Well, forget the wildlife, it hurts flesh and blood subsistence hunters in the area, changes migratory patterns in ways we don’t even understand, increases freezing depths of rivers and lakes…
CHARLIE
And the emissions from drilling.
C.J.
Welcome home, it’ll cause pollutant haze and acid rain, and all this in exchange for?
CHARLIE
Not a lot of oil to begin with.
The Senate voted to drill ANWR. And yes, The West Wing is a fictional television program, but they researched it. To make things worse, the “case” for drilling can be easily summed up as “we need oil.”
Meanwhile, supporters’ clever “How long would your state run on ANWR oil?” question, unfortunately, doesn’t stand up considering that they’re using the “best” possible predictions and – oh yeah – they’re going state by state. Let’s just give all ANWR oil to, say, Indiana. Yay, 68 years of oil! Tough luck for the rest of the country. 10.4 billion barrels divided by 18 million barrels (U.S. consumption per day) = 577 days (about a year and a half). Woo. Glad to know that we’ll be set from January 2020 through June 2021, considering that it will take 15 years for the oil to reach market. Who knows if we’ll even need oil by then.
Get a Prius. Or get an Echo. The caribou and Mommy Earth will thank you.
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Poor Terri Schiavo. It must suck to be starving to death so that her husband can move on with his life with another woman, particularly when he may have been responsible for her condition in the first place. Sorry, no love for the caribou right now, even though you know how much I like meese.
So, right to life on both ends?
Since you’ve successfully moved the spotlight to ethics… grrr… I’d agree with you completely if we actually knew what she wanted; for now I don’t think it’s completely fair to assume. And again (and I might note that I’m saying this more and more) I’m doing the Republican thing and questioning whether it’s the government’s job – beyond the courts, anyway – to intervene either way.