[pct-l] ANWR drilling - BLOCKED!

[gobig2006 at gmail.com (Robert Francisco)]

Ted Stevens was the head of the Senate appropriation committee and thus he
understand money and how it influences votes very well.  With the oil
reserves in Alaska being depleted, the oil tax rebate that every man, woman,
and child in Alaska receives (after being a resident for one year) is in
jeopardy.  Senator Stevens knows that maintaining this "reverse tax" is the
a key voting issue for the majority of Alaskans.  Thus he is covering his
constituency base by ensuring the oil and thus the $ keeps flowing.  The
real crazy thing is that according to polls +70% of Alaskans favor ANWR oil
drilling.  I did not believe this until I spent some time up there this
summer. It's true.

On 12/21/05, Jeff Moorehead <jeffmoorehead1@cox.net> wrote:
>
>
> It's not beyond me why Senator Ted Stevens, who represents the wildest and
> most scenic state in the union, would allow drilling and hence cause a
> disruption of the native ecosystem. He does not understand the ecology of
> the arctic at all. He was one of  those that endorsed wolf hunting as a
> control on the moose population-- an economic resource he said he was
> trying
> to protect (that being trophy hunting). He knows so little about the
> natural
> history of his own state it makes me wonder what really makes this guy
> tick.
>
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