Drilling for little puddles of oil is stupid and not worth the environmental risk. It won't help the economy or employ many people or reduce our dependence on foreign oil. All it will do is make a few rich people richer.

Maybe what's holding Alaska back is being a bunch of snowbound, backwoods retards that vote for losers like Sarah Palin?

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hitlersbrain: Drilling for little puddles of oil is stupid and not worth the environmental risk. It won't help the economy or employ many people or reduce our dependence on foreign oil. All it will do is make a few rich people richer.

Maybe what's holding Alaska back is being a bunch of snowbound, backwoods retards that vote for losers like Sarah Palin?

You object to the most noble goal of all? SOCIALIST!!111

Note to journalist, it's ANWR not AWNR. They got it right the first time then proceeded to mess it up for the rest of the article.

/considering its a Mother Nature Network article, the writer was probably stoned

You are part of this country whether you brain damaged hicks like it or not. Your geographic location means farkall.

Why is it always Republicans/Conservatives who claim to be the most patriotic lovers of America and yet whenever something happens that they don't like they are the first to go full retard and want to burn it down.

Let the liberal angst begin. BRB, getting some popcorn.

crab66: You are part of this country whether you brain damaged hicks like it or not. Your geographic location means farkall.

Why is it always Republicans/Conservatives who claim to be the most patriotic lovers of America and yet whenever something happens that they don't like they are the first to go full retard and want to burn it down.

States' Rights™ trumps everything.

Republicans want all the benefits of living in the United States (Strong military, other states that pay more in taxes than they take in so red states can leech) without the responsibilities and limitations (Taxes (on *them*), the federal government telling them they can't shiat all over poor people/minorities/the environment/non-Christians).

Look how cute, parasites at or near the top of every measure of Federal spending per capita are complaining about their burden.

Just like every other Red State.

Happy Hours: hitlersbrain: Drilling for little puddles of oil is stupid and not worth the environmental risk. It won't help the economy or employ many people or reduce our dependence on foreign oil. All it will do is make a few rich people richer.

Yeah, 2 BILLION barrels of oil and 12 TRILLION cubic feet of natural gas won't help reduce our dependency on foreign oil and gas at all. Those are USGS figures.

You don't understand how oil is sold, do you?

This is the Mudflats take on this: http://www.themudflats.net/2012/01/25/a-fools-errand-brought-to-you-by -rep-kyle-johansen/

Man Alaskans are dumb. I've never even heard of one with an IQ higher than 85, and I'm pretty sure his name was Calvin or Wrangler or something.

/Levi, that's what it was. Dummer'n dirt, but smarter'n any of his fellow frozen-staters.
//Bring the hate, I don't care.

Gunny Walker: Happy Hours: Yeah, 2 BILLION barrels of oil and ...

We use 20 million barrels a day. (new window)
20x365=7,300
7.3 Billion barrels a year.
So, this amazingly vast reserve is only worth 3 to 4 months?

If those liberal weenie-brained scientists had done their jobs we'd be driving cars that got a thousand miles to the gallon so we'd only use like 3 gallons a year as a nation so that 2 billion barrels would last until forever, but no, they're busy killing babies and marrying their gay lovers so in order to keep America running we need that oil and gas!

/Drill, babies, drill

Dear Alaskan senators:
ANWAR is federally controller land. It's been that way for decades. Central Park isn't federally controlled. No one is proposing taking away land from Alaska. This is a poor example.

And you're stupid and you make your ideas look stupid.

I'm actually pro-drilling in ANWAR, it's just a bloody shame that most of the proponents of it are ignorant douchebags.

hitlersbrain: Drilling for little puddles of oil is stupid and not worth the environmental risk. It won't help the economy or employ many people or reduce our dependence on foreign oil. All it will do is make a few rich people richer.

Maybe what's holding Alaska back is being a bunch of snowbound, backwoods retards that vote for losers like Sarah Palin?
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Some days on Fark its as if the uneducated bigotry of the 1950's has been reborn.

I don't see how central park can be classified as a "Wilderness", since it's completely man-made (the original flora/habitat of manhattan island being closer to sparse scrub-land).

We should sell Alaska to the Chinese; pay off our national debt and everyone gets a check for $100,000.

Political satire? Well, they did bring us Sarah from Wassilla. You bettcha!

Great idea. Using similar logic, I'm going to protest my state income taxes by putting a lien on the White House.

Excellent. Just divert the funds from Alaska to Manhattan that would be the equivalent by population. Ron Paul sez you don't even need to get the Federales involved -- just a little money between friends.

Ok, back.

Alright, no drilling for oil in Central Park.

MartinD-35: We should sell Alaska to the Chinese; pay off maybe half our national debt and no one gets a check for $100,000.

ftfy - china not stupid. china fiscally responsible.

/ear of dragon
//it like corn, only better

How much federal money does Alaska get for ever dollar it sends to Washington, again?

Abe Vigoda's Ghost: Let the liberal angst begin. BRB, getting some popcorn.

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Happy Hours: hitlersbrain: Drilling for little puddles of oil is stupid and not worth the environmental risk. It won't help the economy or employ many people or reduce our dependence on foreign oil. All it will do is make a few rich people richer.

Yeah, 2 BILLION barrels of oil and 12 TRILLION cubic feet of natural gas won't help reduce our dependency on foreign oil and gas at all. Those are USGS figures.

No, it actually won't - because this is the wrong focus.

Considering we're already net exporters of oil, the focus is away from being reliant on oil in any fashion and moving to electric based cars. This is only the beginning right now, and cities are already slowly rolling out charging stations + more and more cars are slowly being rolled out that are partially or entirely battery powered. Gov't has set some hard deadlines on when that stuff needs to be mainstream, and they're not far off - thus you've seen manufacturers start to create more hybrids, more cars etc. Granted, battery only is worthless for long drives but that's it's own separate issue.

Happy Hours: hitlersbrain: Drilling for little puddles of oil is stupid and not worth the environmental risk. It won't help the economy or employ many people or reduce our dependence on foreign oil. All it will do is make a few rich people richer.

Yeah, 2 BILLION barrels of oil and 12 TRILLION cubic feet of natural gas won't help reduce our dependency on foreign oil and gas at all. Those are USGS figures.

Oh, you!! Throwing around number without context!!

You know, for most people, a 2000 calorie meal is a huge, gut busting feast. For you, it's probably a light snack. Now apply that to the virtual petrofatass of the U.S.A.

I could'a supported this if they'd thought of it 300 years ago. Now, it just makes them look really slow.

What if Putin rears his head and enters our airspace?

Gunny Walker: Happy Hours: Yeah, 2 BILLION barrels of oil and ...

We use 20 million barrels a day. (new window)
20x365=7,300
7.3 Billion barrels a year.
So, this amazingly vast reserve is only worth 3 to 4 months?

Man.. ONLY! Sheesh. Lets just keep buying from the Saudis instead.

True the amount of oil in ANWR is not much relative to our consumption and for those of us that don't live there it is meaningless. But if the people in Alaska think drilling there is a good idea then maybe some kind of compromise should be met to allow it.

There's nothing wrong with enjoying the fruits of nature. You should try it sometime.

MartinD-35: We should sell Alaska to the Chinese; pay off our national debt and everyone gets a check for $100,000.

This is a special kind of stupid, even if it was tongue and cheek.

Jake Havechek: What if Putin rears his head and enters our airspace?

Then that is one enormous noggin...

Satanic_Hamster: Dear Alaskan senators:
ANWAR is federally controller land. It's been that way for decades. Central Park isn't federally controlled. No one is proposing taking away land from Alaska. This is a poor example.

This.


Satanic_Hamster: I'm actually pro-drilling in ANWAR, it's just a bloody shame that most of the proponents of it are ignorant douchebags.

I'm against drilling there for the time being. I'm more of the mindset of keeping it as a naturally contained strategic oil reserve for emergencies. Burn the oil exported by the rest of the world, until we can figure out a better alternative.

jso2897: Headso: True the amount of oil in ANWR is not much relative to our consumption and for those of us that don't live there it is meaningless. But if the people in Alaska think drilling there is a good idea then maybe some kind of compromise should be met to allow it.

Right. And the people who live around Yosemite should be allowed to take a vote and sell it to Disney to make a theme park out of. Right.
After all, THEY live there, and we don't!

no, it'd be more like if they allowed all the spilled oil from atv snow mobile riding and 4x4ing to pollute the place for some profit... oh wait. that's different because in that case no residents actually get paid where in the case of ANWR revenue would be added to the permanent fund.

brianbankerus: Man Alaskans are dumb. I've never even heard of one with an IQ higher than 85, and I'm pretty sure his name was Calvin or Wrangler or something.

/Levi, that's what it was. Dummer'n dirt, but smarter'n any of his fellow frozen-staters.
//Bring the hate, I don't care.

This,

JackalRabbit: MartinD-35: We should sell Alaska to the Chinese; pay off maybe half our national debt and no one gets a check for $100,000.

ftfy - china not stupid. china fiscally responsible.

/ear of dragon
//it like corn, only better

LOL. I always read the profiles of folks who respond to my musings. (Mine is non-existent because nobody would believe it.) You will be pleased to know I am married to the reincarnation of Annie Oakley. Could we instead sell Texas to the Mexican cartels? But then, maybe China would buy Alaska. After all, they would get a ton of natural resources which they need, land to send their excess peoples to, and it would certainly help in their encirclement of Russia.

ComicBookGuy: How much federal money does Alaska get for ever dollar it sends to Washington, again?

I think because no one but the tough would want to live there everyone who does is given a yearly stipend.

The concept is for the U.S. to keep control of Alaska we need to live/occupy it, so Russia or whoever does not get any ideas and so we are there to keep some resemblance of order.

So really they are doing us a favor.

farkingatwork: Considering we're already net exporters of oil,

Subtle but perhaps important clarification - the U.S. is a net exporter of refined petroleum fuels, not crude oil. We have more, and far more sophisticated, refineries than most of the world. We still consume more oil products than we produce domestically.

Eatlemming: MartinD-35: We should sell Alaska to the Chinese; pay off our national debt and everyone gets a check for $100,000.

This is a special kind of stupid, even if it was tongue and cheek.

You failed 8th grade English, didn't you - just admit it.