Worthy of the Daily Show

Yesterday, someone pointed out to me that the official website for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is basically one big propaganda website for opening it up for oil exploration. There are 'reports' of how well animals are doing around the drilling, even the caribou, who's specific mating ground is now paved over with a well in the middle. There are some stupendous photos of wildlife happily cohabitating with noisy machinery and pipelines. That's right, pipelines make excellent jungle gyms for bears. Arguments are made that people already live in the reserve. Because this population of inuit people, who have lived in relative harmony with nature for centuries, are living there, it isn't right to call the land pristine, or natural. And don't forget the benefits that the oil will bring. There's a handly little table you can use to look up how long your state could run on anwr oil, all 10.4 billion barrels of it. Washington D.C. could run for over a thousand years on it (given current usage). Never mind that California could only run for 16 years and Texas for only 9. I figured it out; Any individual state could run an average of 197 years on the sum of it all, but if all states (including D.C.) shared the oil until it was gone, it would last a wopping 3 years, 10 months. Since this is "America's Energy Insurance Policy" we'll ignore the fact that estimates of potential production are as low as 5.6 billion barrels. Besides, if you don't want ANWR oil; you're killing American Soldiers.