It was different...

 

ummm...you said it....nobody else did.

 

i knew it! i knew you were liberal from the first time we talked!

 

I just found it funny that a bush slut said something like that before anybody else even did.

 

thats like me saying to you, Why continue eating food now to prolong your life when you are just going to die down the road anyway. Quit robbing the earth of its precious meat and plant products just to survive for today. Think About the future.....

 

I guess I'm supposed to defend President Bush and what pretroleum does for our way of life now. But screw that.

I think this just goes to show that drilling has become an unstoppable force in our world.

 

oil is the lifeblood of any world power. would you rather the EU start dictating terms to us because our hegemonic status has decended?

 

The issue, for me at least, is no so much the drilling of the tundra (although, as Epoch pointed out. there environmental impact). The issue is that the map was clearly compromised to allow this drilling to occur. So yes, I would like to know why this map not only went missing, but ended up being replaced by a decoy.

 

so you are saying the earth is going to die and we should care? and by the way, those are renewable resources moron.

 

Well, that was a poor analogy. Food can be replenished. These natural resources aren't exactly replenishable, or at least not in our life time. Also, like someone mentioned, a lot of this land is in the permafrost zone. What will we let loose on our already fragile and poluted air?

Drilling for oil in protected land has many consquences. I just hope our government will take an appropriate stance on this issue. An example would be the wetlands and preserved areas in Southern CA. Developement proceeded to create toll roads and housing projects. The wildlife there took a big hit since the wetlands dried up and most of the natural habitat were invaded.