alphieb

Should we drill for oil in Alaska? What is the significance in that? It will just tear up the environment.

Kandahar

This is just an issue that has been blown out of proportion by politicians. It doesn't matter that much either way. The environmental damage will be minimal...but so will the supposed "energy independence" benefit from such drilling. Since the people of Alaska seem to be OK with it, I say go for it. It'll bring them a few jobs, and since they'd be more affected by the environmental damage than anyone else, I think their opinion should count for something.

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earthworm

This should be a non-debatable question, but for the environmental-wackos..( they have gone too far, blind to the reality of economics, even to national security)
The Alaskans must have a 100% vote in this matter, the tree huggers in Washington,DC do not matter.....

FinnMacCool

I don't like the idea that my gov't drills for oil in some of the most beautiful places in the world. But if they want to do it, I guess they will anyways.

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Missouri Mule

I think I misinterpreted the question upon rereading the poll.

Absolutely. Unequivocally. Without question. Immediately, not not sooner.

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We most definitely should. I think the head of the Senate Energy Committee is from Alaska. I believe he is also the one spearheading this move to drill there

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Kandahar

What makes you think it's one of the most beautiful places in the world? Just because it's a national park doesn't make it beautiful...that's not to say it isn't, but I've never even seen a picture of it. From what I've heard it's basically just desert/tundra for miles in every direction.

Considering less than 5,000 people per year even go to it, far be it from me to tell Alaskans that they can't have those jobs in exchange for the beauty of a small portion of that land.

LeftyHenry

We can't drill in Alaska because it would be one of the most retarded things possible. If we do drill gas prices will only drop about a penny. Also Alaska is the last untouched frontier. Can't we just leave the enviroment alone for once!

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/247130_anwr04.html

"On Wednesday, when the debate began, Cantwell sought to swing the extra votes by saying the refuge would not solve the nation's immediate energy crisis because it will be more than 10 years before the first drop of oil is produced.

Nor will it lower prices, she said, pointing to an Energy Department study that said adding oil from the refuge would lower the price of gasoline by 1 cent per gallon."

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FinnMacCool

I'm not familiar with the place. I was just making a general statement. Perhaps its true that the place is a huge desolate desert. I don't really know so I couldn't say.

jallman

Whether it lowers your energy prices in the lower 48 or not is irrelevant to us Alaskans. I imagine we are specifically talking about ANWR. This is the thing...the tree huggers and ignorant saps who have bought into the scare tactics of conservationists dont realize that nothing lives in ANWR...the idea that it is a wildlife refuge is laughable...nothing lives there. Its miles of glacier and snow and tundra that maybe once every few years a bird might get lost and fly over or a herd of caribou might wander through. If ANWR were to be opened for drilling, they would simply wander around it in the miles and miles of more habitable space.

Further, there is oil literally seeping out of the rocks in this area. We KNOW there is oil there and it is there in abundance. The drilling techniques that would be used would leave almost no mark on the landscape. The oil pumped from that region isnt meant to ease an energy crisis, so just forget that idiocy now. It would be used to generate revenue of which 80 percent would go to defense, 5 percent to disaster relief, and the other 15 percent would remain here in Alaska to fund our much needed highway maintenance.

To not drill is the most retarded hippy-a$$ crap that is being promoted by the tree-hugging busy-body environmental lobbyists in washington.

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