Re: [GreenYes] Artic National Wildlife Refuge Demise

["Timothy J. W. Logan" <own@nyceja.org>]

I would like to add that while ANWR Oil would offer another source of oil,
it would still be a finite resoure which is non-renewable.  However in the
rush to find just a little (on the global scale) more oil we would despoil
another or many more pristine areas, this must be unacceptable.  I am in the
age range that was sent letters telling us we could not leave the country,
presumably because of the potential for bringing back the draft.  My
childhood friends also served in the Gulf War and now suffer quite probably
from our own irradiated bullets, pollutants from burning oil rigs,
innoculations for protection from chemical weapons, or Iraqi weaponry.  And
in the end this helped us how?

Until we focus on renewable fuels to solve our energy needs, countless more
people will invariably die in the fight to provide more polluting fuels and
increase the speed of global warming.  It's time to permanantly protect
pristines ecosystems and find alternatives for our fuel needs.  My 2 cents.

For environmental and social justice,
Timothy J.W. Logan

----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Russ <sjaruss@yahoo.com>
To: Peter Anderson <anderson@recycleworlds.org>; GreenYes
<greenyes@earthsystems.org>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [GreenYes] Artic National Wildlife Refuge Demise


> The World Resources Institute yesterday (February 15)
> released a study, "Facing the United States Oil Supply
> Problems:  Would Opening Up the Arctic National
> Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) Really Make A Difference?"
> prepared by James J. MacKenzie. It's available at the
> WRI website (www.wri.org).  MacKenzie states that "we
> cannot rely on ANWR to significantly alleviate our
> long-term security problems stemming from our reliance
> on increasingly imported oil."  He argues that "U.S.
> oil production, for all intents and purposes, is a
> thing of the past, not the future.  And producing oil
> from ANWR does not materially change this simple
> conclusion."
>
> Steven J. Russ
> Beltsville, MD
>
> --- Peter Anderson <anderson@recycleworlds.org> wrote:
> >     You must excuse me for a fit of anger, but the
> > facility with which raw venality continues to hijack
> > that which is good in America every once in a while
> > becomes so heinous that it breaks through even my
> > protective shroud of cynicism.
> >
> >     According to today's Wall Street Journal ("Study
> > Predicts U.S. Need for Oil from Middle East Will
> > Increase," 2/15/01), a new three volume study backed
> > by a "bipartisan" group of congressional leaders and
> > energy experts and "triggered" by former Democratic
> > Sen. Sam Nunn and James R. Schlesinger, a former
> > Republican secretary of defense and energy concludes
> > that there will be no breakthroughs in energy
> > conservation and no realization of consequences that
> > flow from global warming, and so we have two
> > choices: we can either become substantially more
> > dependent upon getting more oil from Iran or Libya,
> > or (oh you don't like that do you?) ... don't hold
> > your breath guessing ... yes we can drill the Arctic
> > National Wildlife Refuge.
> >
> >     The fix is on!
> >
> >     Mind you I have no problem with the automobile
> > industry making money. More power to them. But, why
> > the god damn hell can't they pitch high mark-up
> > Lexuses instead of high rollover gas guzzling SUVs.
> >
> >
> >    Peter
> >
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