[pct-l] ANWR drilling - BLOCKED!

[dsaufley at sprynet.com (dsaufley@sprynet.com)]

My experience is that the majority have no qualms with logging or hunting, either.  Attitudes are very different when survival, economic or otherwise, is at stake.  

L-Rod

-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Francisco <gobig2006@gmail.com>
>Sent: Dec 21, 2005 3:38 PM
>To: 
>Cc: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
>Subject: Re: [pct-l] ANWR drilling - BLOCKED!
>
>Ted Stevens was the head of the Senate appropriation committee and thus he
>understand money and how it influences votes very well.  With the oil
>reserves in Alaska being depleted, the oil tax rebate that every man, woman,
>and child in Alaska receives (after being a resident for one year) is in
>jeopardy.  Senator Stevens knows that maintaining this "reverse tax" is the
>a key voting issue for the majority of Alaskans.  Thus he is covering his
>constituency base by ensuring the oil and thus the $ keeps flowing.  The
>real crazy thing is that according to polls +70% of Alaskans favor ANWR oil
>drilling.  I did not believe this until I spent some time up there this
>summer. It's true.
>
>On 12/21/05, Jeff Moorehead <jeffmoorehead1@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> It's not beyond me why Senator Ted Stevens, who represents the wildest and
>> most scenic state in the union, would allow drilling and hence cause a
>> disruption of the native ecosystem. He does not understand the ecology of
>> the arctic at all. He was one of  those that endorsed wolf hunting as a
>> control on the moose population-- an economic resource he said he was
>> trying
>> to protect (that being trophy hunting). He knows so little about the
>> natural
>> history of his own state it makes me wonder what really makes this guy
>> tick.
>>
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