At the risk of causing a tsunami I will state my opinion that I hope the sensible ones in Congress manage to keep the developers out of the ANWR and the loggers from destroying the Tongass. I know some here make their living from the forests. And I hope that stays viable. However, there are those that would take down every old growth tree for the dollars. Hurwitz, the corporate raider that owns Pacific Lumber did his damndest to convert every tree under his control to lumber dollars. He is one of the hit and run rapists in the corporate world. In so far as I can tell the man has no conscience. We must never let his kind be responsible for our natural resource and wild places legacy.
AND don't sell public land to private individuals or companies.
I'll gladly pay the price of transportation and energy if we can actually find some viable alternatives to fossil fuels. There are alternatives, pricey right now, but that can be changed. I'd dearly love to be able to tell Chavez, the Saudis, and the rest of the Middle Eastern oil tycoons to take their oil and shove it.