We should tap our huge oil reserves

And just like our city requires someone to answer questions about how much things will cost, you have to also admit, it would cost them to answer some questions about the environmental impact this will have on animals and vegetation to get to that oil reserve. Let me put it to you another way, you don't know about how it impacts drinking water when you dig for gold in the mountains of Georgia do you? But you want the gold anyway and you think that having gold will do nothing for your drinking water right? Oil has that same type of bearing on the environment. I agree, we should drill for that oil, but more information is needed at this time and nobody is willing to tell us the whole story. Now, before you start with your name calling hear me out...If we run out of Polar Bears at the expense of our oil drilling, what impact would it have on things? Can you promise that oil spills in the water will be avoided? Can you promise the oil spills won't harm whales that are endangered? I want energy too, but I am NOT willing to give up my drinking water for it, cause this is not something you can guarantee me in the future!

Did you check our Senator Saxby Special Interest Chambliss on the Rush Show?? He's with Obama, Pelosi, & Reid.. Windfall taxes on oil & drill offshore in 4 (without oil) states if the state agrees. This RINO has knifed John McCain & President Bush in the back.. Term Limits Now, Term Limits NOW

DE2, education is not bad. I promise, it won't hurt a bit.

You're right Ga Values. Isakson, Chambliss, and Graham are all Rino sellouts interested only in their personal power and fortune. All need to be voted out.

Pat, you know nothing about the environment anyway, shouldn't you be in school today?

The U.S. has a worthy amount of oil, but not enough to sustain us. Canada has an oil supply that matches the world's total supply in the Athabasca Tar Sands but these oil sands (Venezula has as large one too) are not a ready supply of oil and in fact the technology to render the oil is only now being developed. Canada does have the only oil sands readily surface mineable, and although expensive to attain it would be well worth the while. The U.S. should make a pact with Canada to help develop the technology and attain the oil for mutual benefit. The largest recoverable oil field are in the Persian Gulf and Western Siberia. Oil can be recovered in environmentally friendly ways but there is always risks of oil spills but that is the price we pay for an oil dependent society. Oil dependence isn't going away as long we are industrialized nations. If we run out of polar bears that maybe natural. It is called evolution, and extinctions are a part of the process. Without the dinosaurs extinction we wouldn't be here. 99.9% of the critters that have lived on the planet are extinct. Humans and climate change have precipitated the extinction of countless species-like the wooly mammoth.

Should someone tell de2 that they are already drilling in Canada, we already have numerous studies done on the effects of drilling in Alaska and off shore? While her enthusiasm is commendable, her research is lacking. This is not meant to be an insult or attack. Many times great things have occured as a result of foolish endeavors. If she starts some of the petitions she talks about, I would hope she would foward them to all of us.

I did, you toss them aside in the trash and I have to start over!

DE2, yeah I remember the Alaskan pipeline crap....hmm now lets look at something you bleeding hearts totally miss...HISTORY (the study of WHAT HAPPENED). Despite whining excuses of what WOULD HAPPEN and the disasters that would befall the critters.....shockingly 30 someodd years later...the CARIBOU heards are (heres the shocking part you libidinous twit) GROWING due to the heat generated by the pipeline they are growing. All the other predictions of GLOOM and DOOM were miserably overcome.....Okay now here is a book to read "Trashing the Enviornment by Dixie Lee Ray. A well footnoted and referenced book that is as accurate as it was the day Dr. Ray wrote it.

There is an email circulating debunking the enviornmentalists' stand on drilling in Anwar. Part of the email is untrue, but the descriptions of the drilling site, etc are true. http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/a/anwar.htm

DEII, if you are going to blather nonsense here, just shut up. Otherwise, do the research and you will find that the environmental impact in Alaska/ANWR have been answered and is negligible to none. In fact, wild life has increased along the current pipeline because it provides heat in the winter not there before. BTW, just how much impact on drinking water has mining of gold in North GA caused? Specifics please.

Saxby was on the Neal Borz show this morning, he was worse than on Rush. Basically he knows what's right & we stupid VOTES just need to shut up & quit calling his office.Some "Conservative" he has sold out to Pelosi & Reid.. Wonder what his LOBBIST SON BO is going to do when Saxby is our Ex-Senator??

Lovefest Announcement, Saxby & His best Bud Teddy Kennedy, they love those illegals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK5TprmkgRw&feature=related

A better energy source for the U.S. is natural gas, which is mostly methane, but other gases too. Clathrate hydrates or gas hydrates are abundant on the ocean floor and also in the Canadian artic Mallik gas hydrate field. Methane is caged as a hydrate and the technology is now available to release this energy source from the hydrates.

Supposed we did get the oil from Alaska Do we have the refinery capacity to do anything with it? The writer mentions Montana and North Dakoda, but I do not hear politicians mentioning them, or other areas where the oil companies have already been handed land.