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YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!
Northern oil exploitation in the near future now at
hand?
That is a subject that people should begin to keep a watch out for.
I say this because at this point, where nature has created the most
opportune time, the government and the oil conglomerates can count on
instant and nearly a majority American support.
With the gas and oil prices going sky-high and drivers of all vehicles in
Americans screaming about those prices as well as everyone screaming about
how the oil supply sky is falling, I don’t believe it would take much for
the oil concerns and government to ram through the opening of tundra area
oil fields.
The situation is made even more favorable to them in view of the fact that
right in the middle of the two hurricanes America also had several
earthquakes AND a Mt. St. Helen’s volcano alert.
Just wait until actual winter oil/gas figures start coming in.
At this point, this combined self-appointed voice of catastrophe should be
able to walk right over the environmentalists and their lobbies….IF the
two act quickly enough. And as you know, when it comes to making money
neither of the two are slow to take advantage of other’s misfortunes when
they can do it while waving the banner of so-called Public Demand.
I believe the perfect time is at hand, unless the government falls into
its normal routine, which is being unable to walk and chew legislative gum
at the same time.
Where do I, personally, stand on this Tundra vs. Oil struggle? How do I go
about saying this while angering the fewest people as possible? Basically,
this and a couple other things, put me in a very difficult situation. To
be able to see the various aspects in both sides of a thing is really an
excellent thing to hone and grow in. However, it can from time-to-time
twist your tail most uncomfortably. This is one of those times.
It should be able to go without saying, that I have respect and reverence
for all of Nature. As well, I know many of the possible ramifications of
opening oil fields there.
On the other hand, I know the truth of the fact that these oil fields are
needed, and that need as the population continues to grow willy-nilly is
only going to grow. For there is another Truth to be admitted: Today’s
people love their toys. A government, albeit sometimes with increasing
difficulty, can do just about anything it wants to, as long as “the
people” have their “toys”.
That, having been said, progress is, to this point in our knowledge,
absolutely essential to the overall survival of our species. For if you
have no progress, then stagnation sets in and eventually you either end up
with no people at all, or they regress into little better than our
so-called cave dwelling friends.
So, like it or not, oil is absolutely essential to the continued lifestyle
that we hold dear. Look, throw away all the clutter and see it as it
really is – without our own oil in truly sufficient quantity to equal the
Muslim oil producing countries such as Saudi Arabia, America is going to
be led around by the nose by ever increasing oil costs and/or being told
what to do under threat of having oil productions shut off, etc. Then we
have the fuse for Armageddon lit.
My biggest problem against letting the oil companies do their thing up
North, is that the technology and all that is available to do what they
need to do with a minimum of natural disruption. Its just that “they”
won’t do it. Why? Costs too much. Take this paragraph and add it with the
one above it and you have what is known as Oil “…wanting their cake and
eating it too.”
It’s the absolutely greed that permeates the Oil entities that prevents me
from fully siding with them on this particular issue.
Of course this greed is in everything and not just them alone. But, for
sure, Oil is the Poster Boy(s) for them all.
As for, shall we say environmentalists, what prevents me from siding with
them fully is that they will not compromise to arrive at something that
works for both sides; and their apparent belief that it is better for
thousands of people to suffer in one way or another than it is to evict
some obscure bug.
In short, they both just stand while yelling and hitting the door because
they won’t use the doorknob or take time to realize, hey – there is a
difference between Push and Pull!
How do you stand on the Tundra/Oil issue? Well, below is some information
for you if you side with the environmentalists, or simply love Nature and
believe this should be stopped.
As for contact information, if you side with the Oil folks….well, I doubt
if any of us could manage to contact anyone higher than perhaps the mail
clerk, so I am not even going to bother trying to find that information.
Besides, despite my seeing the need for oil, this does not mean I like the
Oil Companies….at all.
 HEYA!
NRCD Action Fund-Fighting
in Congress for Our Environment
The fate of the Arctic Refuge will be determined when Congress casts its
decisive vote on the budget reconciliation bill. Tell Congress you get the
picture: that you know a vote for the budget reconciliation bill is a vote
to put oil rigs in the Arctic Refuge. Demand that your representatives
oppose any version of the budget bill that would open the Refuge to
massive oil development and destruction!
http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/
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