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Originally Posted by Locobot
Of course we're being screwed. We're allowing private entities to reap a major profit from our public national resources. Even the pittance Alaskans might receive in wages or hush money will pale in comparison to big oil's profits.
When it comes to renewable energy sources and environmental destruction concepts of cost and value quickly become irrelevent. How much will global warming "cost?" What is the value of clean air and water?
I honestly see no difference between the plan to prospect in ANWR and suggestions to tap our strategic oil reserve. Isn't the hypothetical oil in ANWR also a strategic reserve?
How many jobs could be created be connecting our cities with highspeed rail lines? With the high cost of renewable energy comes high paying jobs to engineer and maintain those energy sources. We're only stuck with foreign oil as long as we elect leaders who see no alternatives.
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You're exactly right. Being a lifelong Alaskan, that dividend every year does pretty much amount up to "hush" money. "As long as I get my dividend check and it's fat, then the gov't can do whatever the hell they want" they always say every October. I'm sorry to say but I think that the majority of Alaskans are either stupid or weak, maybe both. No one wants to do anything to take us off this Saudi oil spigot. When the oil really runs out however, we'll all be screwed. One reason being that China wil pass us in pretty much everything economical while we're on our knees begging for energy, and the other is that it'l be very easy for China to become number one becasue our economy will already be at a screeching halt.