Drilling in ANWR? Hmmmm...

We can't drill there its so "pristine" we can't touch it. The caribou, and polar bears etc. Why can't we touch it? Anyone ever seen ANWR? I'm not talking about the mountains, while that may be part of ANWR its not the tiny section that the oil companies want to drill. Check it out here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5MfpchQ2JE

No this isn't National Geographic but they will back this up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMKcxVdju8Q

Yes liberals you'll get upset that I'm putting links to Hannity and now Glenn but listen please with an open mind. There's something for us all to learn here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtJMFbwpLSM

The funny part is that the liberals want to say that they are looking out for YOU and the "poorest among us," is that by keeping us dependent on foreign oil? Or is it by keeping gas prices high? I know how to fix it, lets tax the oil companies, that won't come back to haunt us will it? Hmmm. If you want to create high paying jobs, then let them drill. No it won't solve everything, and it won't be an immediate decrease at the pump, then again nothing will. Wouldn't it make a lot of sense to have oil coming from our own country rather than overseas? Hmm.
I live in Utah, and here and in Wyoming where drilling for natural gas has increased we've seen increased home values, an increase jobs and pay. In Vernal, Utah I'm told there are people earning $10/hour with benefits at McDonald's. Why would that be? Hmmm, could it be that the drilling fields are just too tempting? I spoke with a man who paves roads for the county out there, a job that is coveted in many places, good pay, cushy benefits. He told me that the biggest problem they have is trying to stay staffed. The locals can't resist the money in the fields. I've met people who've either not finished High School, or barely sqeaked by and are earning $80,000/year.
In Utah we have oil shale, rocks dripping with oil. It takes a bit to process it, but with oil prices passing $3/gallon it became economically feasible. If congress wants to be energy independant like they say then open up the western basin, open up ANWR, open up the ocean and gulf for drilling. Let us make and produce the oil, and then we can sell the extra overseas. Russia is making a killing, Iran, Iraq are lapping it up. Venezuela is loving it, do you notice that none of these countries are real keen on the US of A? Lets pull the plug on them. No it won't be today, but if we drilled now we'd have it later. If we'd drilled when Reagan proposed it we'd have had it ten years ago. Carter is the one who set it aside for possible oil production.
I just love how the people who are so opposed to drilling in ANWR usually have never seen a picture of it and are clueless about the scope of the proposed drilling area. The biggest part of all of this is that oil is a market based product. The companies willing to drill it are the ones who face the big risk, what has the US to gain or lose. We can gain a lot from the royalties that they will charge, and more security in having the resources here rather than overseas. We could have an oil spill, but much of this would be piped. They don't drill in the summer because the ground is too soft. Thats when the caribou come out anyway, so what's the big fuss? The only real thing that the pipeline has ever had happen is to attract more animals in the winter to the warmth. The caribou population and even the polar bears have increased in number in the last 30 years. Hmmm, isn't that similar to the time the pipeline has been there? Hmmm, sounds bad to me too. And since ANWR can't solve ALL of our problems, lets do nothing to secure our oil reserves at all. That's better.
But don't worry Al Gore says that the "new technology is around the corner." I'm sure we can change all of our power plants, cars, boats, ships, planes in the next few years, in fact in 10 years we'll probably have no use whatsoever for oil. Isn't that great? Oh wait, what do you mean plastic and vinyl are made from oil? That's just crazy talk. We'll make plastic from bat dung instead. Oooo how green is that?

P.S. More electric cars means more coal burning since most of our electric plants are run on coal and no wind can't replace all of that.