House Votes on Drilling,

Hey folks,

That’s right. The House voted on Thursday to open an Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling. The vote was 225-201.

They say the reason is the public outcry over the three dollar a gallon price of gas. This move is said to create another some 11 billion gallons of crude oil.

Is this good news? Is this new? No. Sorry to bust your bubble of hope, but this would make about the sixth time. Every time this is tried by the House, it is blocked in the Senate because of the environmental wacko extremists.

You know folks, this is really pretty stupid. We are in this position because of the environmental extremists to begin with. No new refineries in 30 years. No drilling. No nuclear power, etc. It is the extremists, and those that pander to them, that created the monopoly that Big Oil has.

The call of theirs, actually is the same as mine in part, create and produce more AFVs [Alterative fuel Vehicles] , and Afs [Alterative fuels] themselves. But, here’s where we separate the logic and intelligence, from the radical wackiness.

"We cannot drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge because we might upset the caribou." " The only answer to the high gas is Afs and to force the big bad oil companies to stop gouging." "You cannot put man over animals. We are no better than the poor helpless Polar bear."

OK, first, We are talking an area of 1.5 million acres. We are talking about a minute part of that for the drilling. Second, the investigation has concluded that there was NO price gouging, and the fact still remains, Big Oil has NOTHING to do with the pricing. The biggest "gouger" in this is the government through taxes. Third, I’m sorry, but MANKIND does come first.

I say we pass this and start weaning our dependants from foreign oil. Meanwhile, we continue to create, modify, and prefect, AFVs and Afs themselves. The faster we do this, the better off we will be. The happier the poor little caribou will be too.
Peter