Redford - National Arctic Refuge
The Bush Administration continues to try to give money to their friends in the oil bid’nes’. Other attempt to drill. This must be the 5th or 6th time they have tried.
Outstanding Robert Redford appeal.
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Sherwood Boehlert, the moderate Republican who will retire this fall, observed on the floor of the House last week that despite polls showing conservation as the ”preferred option” among Americans worried about high gas prices and oil dependency, ”this Congress has not voted on a single conservation measure since gasoline hit $3 a gallon.” At which point his colleagues voted (yet again) to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling in the misguided but apparently unshakable belief that a nation that uses one-quarter of the world’s oil while possessing 3 percent of its reserves can drill its way to lower prices. [Read more →]
