That’s because they just don’t know any better. If they were truly smart, they would rather turn their own country and community into a third world country so that they could feel good about themselves and decrease our impact on mother earth. That’s how it’s done, right?

Americans acting in their own best interests. How refreshing. Washington? Are you listening?

By BCB on 06.05.08 5:57 am

Should drilling be allowed, even encouraged, anywhere including, for example, the front yards of rich, powerful, influential people? Should those people be able to prevent it? We already know that there is no impediment to drilling in the middle of a poor neighborhood or on a small family farm.

By SemiPundit on 06.05.08 7:09 pm

Drilling should be permitted on any land where the landowner gives permission. Government should not be allowed via eminent domain to confiscate someone’s property to put down a well the same as government should not confiscate property under eminent domain to give to a developer.

Ironic isn’t it that the Kennedys are in lock step to hold this country hostage to foreign state owned oil companies yet won’t permit wind power around their vacation homes?

I suspect that by the time the lawsuits, injunctions and EPA invocation by the eco-terrorists are exhausted in Sioux City there won’t be any use for the fuel. Horses will be in high demand.

The drilling or mining in poor neighborhoods or the small family farm is not being promoted. 64% of Utah is federal land where the largest low sulphur coal deposits in the world exist that could be used for coal gasification but can’t because Bill Clinton forbid it’s use in perpetuity like he knew $150 a barrel oil was coming.

Take Alaska which is 68% federal land and 75% of the population says drill in ANWR.

The Alaska coastal plain area (1.5 million acres) was set aside for oil and gas exploration in the 60’s. Although 1.5M is set aside for energy exploration(10.02 Area), Congress went further and limited future development to only 2,000 acres requiring Congressional approval. ANWR is 19 million acres total and larger than 10 other states in the lower 48. We are talking about an area less than one half of one percent that is flat, barren, covered in snow and ice for 9 months of which 3 are in total darkness. No poor people living there.

Within that 1.5 million acre area lies 92,000 acres privately owned by the Inupiat natives with full mineral rights. But little good that does because the Fed won’t let them exercise those rights. These poor people are living in a Federal snow globe.

By Rick Forman on 06.06.08 8:33 am

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