Good grief, I would hate to see you guys get excited !


1) I don't care who drills and pumps the oil(as long as American, duh), I don't think many regular Joes can get it done, so it will probably some bazillionaire.....who will try to make money doing it, which you might have heard is one of the things necessary to have an economy.........


2) There has been oil extracted and pumped out of that region for a long time, and I still can't figure out what the environmental harm is, if you guys catch your breath how about letting me in on it.......


3) It doesn't really matter who's car turns all that resource into poisonous fumes, putting more oil on the world market is going to be a tool for us to use politicly.......

4) We must have forgotten how to wage a Cold War, all we need to do is make the world believe that we are going to bring all the oil we can get to market, and prices would drop........

5) There is probably some good logic in just sitting on all that oil for use latter on, but let's face it, humans know and can learn other sources of energy, this may be the prime time to move it. You greenies might not realize it, but supply and demand works in your favor sometimes, right now in the Pacific N.W. extra large oldgrowth logs are not very valuable because most mills can't cut them, the old mills are wearing out and not worth rebuilding, that is a fact I learned at work from a timber company employee 10 years ago. Timber companies were targeting areas of small timber which had the most straggler oldgrowth (low grade-skipped over back in the day), mixed in to get their tree farms cleaned up while they could still sell the big ol' things...