John Thompson wrote:
On 2008-05-14, wrote:

On May 14, 9:24 am, Frank Krygowski wrote:
b) The US should drill for oil offshore, in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge, etc.
What are these people smoking?

Drilling in previously off-limits areas will have no significant
positive effect on America's energy dependence or the price of oil or
the price of gasoline.

But that's not the reason why they want to drill in the ANWR. There's
good money to be made pumping that oil and they want to get it before
somebody else does.

Who else is going to get the oil on U.S. territory?

Do remember that the people telling us that drilling in the ANWR will
help solve our energy problems are the same people who told us that
we invaded Iraq because of the "virtual certainty" that Saddam had
weapons of mass destruction, and for the same reason.

And they knew (and know) that neither of those was true. They have their
reasons for doing what they're doing though.