more fatalist bull*****. We have no clue how much is out there, but every time we find more we're kept from using it.
Can't take 24 square miles off the coast of Cape Cod for windmills, where they are best suited, because Ted Kennedy and Walter Cronkite don't want them in their backyards.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/26/sunday/main560595.shtml
The campaign to stop the wind farms was started by Cape Cod merchants and wealthy landowners. It's also opposed by almost every town government. Sen. Ted Kennedy, who has a home overlooking the proposed wind farm, also opposes the project. So does one of Martha's Vineyard most famous residents, former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite.
"Our natural treasures should be off limits to industrialization, and Nantucket is one of those treasures," says Cronkite.
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The problem is that they're going to be visible. And they're going to be visible at night and they're going to be visible during the day and they're going to be lit up,"
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Find oil at home, great! Let's drill for it. Oh, wait, Liberals hate Caribou.
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http://talent.senate.gov/AmericanSound/Articles/murkowski_anwar.htm
Alaska’s experience at the nearby Prudhoe Bay oil field, where the caribou herd has grown to 32,000 animals from about 3,000 prior to oil development, shows that caribou not only can tolerate, but flourish in oil fields. That is especially the case since restrictions will prevent any drilling noise during the two months when the caribou might be present.
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Hmm, well, that excuse won't work... Oh, I know, there isn't enough oil to make it worth it anyway!
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According to the Energy Information Administration, there is a 50-50 chance that the 1.5 million-acre coastal plain in the refuge holds about 10 billion barrels of economically recoverable oil—enough to produce about 1 million barrels a day for 30 years. This is not an inconsequential field. Such a find would be the largest oil field discovered in the world in the past three decades and would equal nearly one-fifth of America’s likely domestic production in 2010. More importantly, chances are good that the field will yield 16 billion barrels—making it America’s largest field ever. Equally important, at current prices, it represents $15 billion a year that we won’t have to spend on buying oil overseas.
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Crap! Ok... well... we don't want to hurt the 'pristine' wilderness of this barren wasteland with our industrialization.
Let's see... ANWR is 19-million acres.
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Safeguards in congressional legislation will guarantee that no more than 2,000 acres of all the coastal plain in Alaska will be touched. Directional drilling underground allows oil wells to be placed up to 10 miles apart, preventing disturbance to the animals that breed and graze in between
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Let's see... 2,000 acres out of 19,000,000 is hardly .01% of the wildlife refuge. Maybe if it was .001% it would be okay with liberals?