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[tmrschessie]

Kind of says it all don't it....Tom

[muddy river]

No Tom, this does.

[tmrschessie]

Strongly disagree, This one came to me the other day, puts it a little more into perspective who is shafting us...Tom

My brother Robert worked in D.C. for a firm
that helped companies and other entities present their views on public policy
issues with printed materials, speeches and congressional testimony. The
pictures below are some of the ones he used on behalf of his client (not these
exactly as these were forwarded to me from a friend who did not identify the
source). His client was the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters. Their headline was "If you care about
Mother Earth, you should support opening ANWR." They went on to explain in
detail about the methods and care taken to protect the environment while
drilling for the energy that is the lifeblood of our economy –and way of
life. I was surprised, too.
-Geo









FIRST… do you know
what ANWR is?





ANWR = Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge.






Now… A
comparison











And
some perspective…










NOTE WHERE THE
PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AREA IS…



(it's in the "ANWR
Coastal Plain")










THIS IS WHAT THE
DEMOCRATS, LIBERALS AND "GREENS" SHOW YOU WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT
ANWR



…and they are right…
these ARE photographs of ANWR










ISN'T ANWR BEAUTIFUL?
WHY SHOULD WE DRILL HERE (AND DESTROY) THIS BEAUTIFUL
PLACE?



…



…







WELL… THAT'S NOT
EXACTLY THE TRUTH







Do you remember the
map?





The map showed that
the proposed drilling area is in the ANWR Coastal
Plain





Do those photographs
look like a coastal plain to you?






WHAT'S GOING ON
HERE?


…..



…..



…..



…..



….



…






THE ANSWER IS
SIMPLE…






THAT IS
NOT WHERE
THEY ARE WANTING TO DRILL!






THIS IS WHAT THE
PROPOSED EXPLORATION AREA ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IN THE
WINTER









AND THIS IS WHAT IT
ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IN THE
SUMMER












HERE ARE A COUPLE
SCREEN SHOTS FROM GOOGLE EARTH











AS YOU CAN SEE, THE
AREA WHERE THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT DRILLING IS A BARREN
WASTELAND.








OH… AND THEY SAY THAT
THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE EFFECT ON THE LOCAL
WILDLIFE…






HERE IS A PHOTO (SHOT
DURING THE SUMMER) OF THE
"DEPLETED WILDLIFE" SITUATION CREATED BY DRILLING
AROUND PRUDHOE BAY *…
DON'T YOU THINK THAT
THE CARIBOU REALLY HATE THAT
DRILLING?










HERE'S THAT SAME SPOT
DURING THE WINTER.










HEY, THIS BEAR SEEMS
TO REALLY HATE THE PIPELINE NEAR
PRUDHOE BAY *…







*The Prudhoe bay area
accounts for 17% of U.S. domestic oil
production





NOW, WHY DO YOU THINK
THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE LYING ABOUT
ANWR?




REMEMBER WHEN
AL GORE SAID
THAT
THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD WORK TO ARTIFICIALLY
RAISE GAS PRICES
TO $5.00 A GALLON?



WELL…



AL GORE AND
HIS FELLOW DEMOCRATS HAVE ALMOST REACHED THEIR
GOAL!






NOW THAT YOU KNOW THE TRUTH,
WHAT ARE
YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?




YOU CAN START BY
FORWARDING THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW…
SO THAT THEY WILL KNOW THE
TRUTH.

[muddy river]

Those pictures do make a great point.

[muddy river]

Oh wait, what pictures?

[tmrschessie]

All of em....Tom

[muddy river]

Tom, all I see is white boxes that say "This image has been moved or deleted." Maybe I don't have the right program on my PC to open them. I don't know man.

[tmrschessie]

They are showing up on mine, too bad as they really emphasise the point...no pun intended. Tom

P.S. are they showing up now?

[muddy river]

Yes. In what ways do you think drilling in this tiny area would benefit the US? Would it make a big enough impact to be worth it? If the oil companies have to do exploratory drilling to see if oil is even in the area (like they don't want to do on their leased land)and they don't have access to this area, how do they know oil is there? All serious questions I don't have the answers to.

[bswanson]

Come on muddy just tell him what you think about GW and the republican party.

[tmrschessie]

Notice how close it is to prudhoe bay, let your imagination run and think how much would it cost to run a pipeline from the new site to there and ship it out...

swanson this is not about our president. Tom

[goose133]

Ship it out to China you mean. High sulfur crude that gets refined in countries that do not have environmental standards. We do not refine high sulfur crude into gasoline in our country-only sweet and light sweet is refined for gas here. Now we do have a large deposit of very light sweet crude here in the fields of SD,ND and up into Canada locked in limestone and hard to retrieve but we are figuring it out and in my opinion this is where we should spend our time and money.
this is only my opinion and as always it is the only one that counts
Goose

[tmrschessie]

Well why not build a refinery that will handle what we bring up? Since we need new refiners anyhow. Why pay anyone to do anything, that is what has gotten us where we are. Tom

[goose133]

The cost involed with refining high sulfur crude into gas makes it unattractive to big oil in the US. Lots of contaminates that have to be properly disposed of. In China they can just dump it on the ground. Believe me Tom I am with you on this but I think the greatest country in the world can find a way to do it right.
Goose