When Polar Bears are classified, there will be no drilling in ANWR.
The USA Government under Republicans of any breed is corrupt.
Just that simple.
Republicans are 'invested' in anciet economics and companies that should have been out of business a long, long time ago. Realize the global climate dynamics causing this crisis with Polar Bears and then realize the USA under a majority of Republican Presidents and legislators have not moved from ancient methods of energy production.
The Republicans' personal holdings, with Cheney as King of the Corruption Hill, see only the wealth and an economic strategy that has sustained their party for decades. They reject alternative energies, alternative fuels, have askewed ideas regarding science, reject conservation as an important national directive (Otherwise they won't be seeking to drill ANWR.), do not value children unless they are growing up to be soldiers, do not respect the future of Americans so much as their immediate bank rolls and fiscal needs, do not see public transportation as important or necessary to a society in need of alternative methods of travel, they seek exploitation of the USA Treasury as a methodology to supporting their economics while giving exceptionally little consideration to social needs, such as SCHIP and other national crisises.
So when they run out of 'propaganda' they simply ignore 'The Rule of Law' and do as they please to achieve their directives. They are human rights violators and in ignoring the law while diverting a nation's wealth into initiatives of illegal wars, they control power that is adverse to the best outcome of an entire nation and hence its allies.
No one should be surprised or shocked the Bush/Cheney administration's EPA is doing the "W"rong thing. They don't intend to do anything else. Ever.
March 13, 2008, 6:38PM
Alaska's US Senators Seek ANWR Drilling (click here)
By STEVE QUINN Associated Press Writer
JUNEAU, Alaska — With oil hitting $110 a barrel, gas prices reaching record highs and energy costs growing prohibitive, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Thursday it's time to reconsider oil exploration on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
She, along with fellow Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, introduced legislation to open up ANWR should oil prices reach $125 for five straight days.
"You get to a point where maybe there is a tipping point when it comes to driving action on an issue like ANWR," Murkowski told The Associated Press. "People are talking about what's going on with the high price of gasoline and the high price of energy that we are feeling acutely at home."
The 1.2 million-acre coastal strip has long been protected from efforts to open the area east of Prudhoe Bay oil field to energy companies.
If opened, Murkowski said revenues would be used by the federal government for alternative energy development, plus energy relief programs for low-income families....
The US government agency responsible for including the polar bear on its list of endangered species faced a new legal challenge yesterday over its failure to protect the supreme Arctic predator. Environmental groups were ready to sue the Bush administration in federal court in California, claiming the Fish and Wildlife Service was in breach of its own mandate.
A decision on classifying the polar bear as threatened due to climate change was due to have been made by January 9, a year after consultations began on the issue. Officially, the service says it is still reviewing technical data and more than 670,000 comments on the issue but its own inspector general has announced a preliminary investigation into the delay to determine whether a full investigation is warranted....
