Download this page in PDF formatIt’s a week to the US Presidential elections, and buried amongst the negativity and acrimonious statements being made on the campaign trail, people are forgetting the ramifications of the energy “policy” being promoted.
Ever since the whole idea of shattering the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge open for energy exploitation has been around, it’s bugged me. The push to ruin one of the last pieces of untouched land has been motivated purely by FUD.
Let’s remember a few things here:
- Any energy (gas or oil) won’t be seen from any drilling for decades – it’s not going to change the economy or price of energy any time in the near future.
- Given the total mismanagement, fraud, and outright theft of existing land funds by the US Government that’s supposed to be for the People, does anyone really believe any of the money the US Government collects from drilling in ANWR will ever really reach the People whose land is being stolen yet again?
- Who really benefits from this idea? It won’t be common people, it’ll be the oil companies – like they’re not already raking in billions of dollars in profits already that won’t be taxed?
It’s easy for people to say “We need the energy”, “we need oil independance”, but the fact of the matter is, drilling in the ANWR won’t produce anything for decades, and the people all screaming for such drilling aren’t the ones having land appropriated for the purpose. It’s very easy for them to be all for this idea – they’re not the ones going to have pollution and heavy machinery across the street from their homes.
Is the answer to decades of short-sighted stupidity and ostrich-like behaviour by the United States more of it with another “sounds good on paper and distracts the sheeple from the real issues” proposal as ANWR drilling?
Maybe it’s just me, but if something isn’t working, you don’t just sit there and keep doing the same thing over and over again hoping that this time it will work.
This is an artistic impression of what the real result of ANWR drilling will be – but it’s not that far off the mark. Is this the legacy people want to be remembered for in a hundred years time?
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