"Had we done this ten years ago, maybe we wouldn't be having this debate."
Unfortunately, the amounts that even the most optimistic projections predict for ANWAR means that, had we done it *twelve* years ago, we also wouldn't be having this conversation, since ANWAR reserves would have been sucked dry and shipped to China in anywhere from several months to two years.
There just ain't that much there. Or down here. It's over there -->
(pointing to the Middle East and a fingerjab at Venezuela)
Google "palin salmon mining" and you'll get many hits, including a solid NYT article.
The "priceless headwaters of one of the world's last great runs of Pacific salmon" was opened up to vast strip-mining, mainly for foreign companies, with few safeguards. It's where much of our wild salmon come from these days. Irreplaceable, soon to be a parking lot, basically. And of course, it's much more than salmon, but they're a marker.
And, y'know, even in the FDR days, Dems weren't that socialist, let alone now. You want REAL gov't interference in the markets? Vote Republican. Gov't is always larger under them (Bush, WAY over, and McCain promises more of the same). Gov't spending is always up. Google it. Let alone with keeping the gov't out of our bedrooms, homes and doctor's offices.
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