ie: the oil and gas business, energy, in general, we let the minority pinhead tree hugers tell US that we can't drill, build refineries or do anything on energy but look at the sun.
Some of us minority pinhead tree huggers
don't want drilling in the national preserves because we believe that there are viable forms of renewable resources that would be better for the environment than more oil. They have fuel cells from ethanol that can power computers for weeks, and this from corn. I remember going hiking with my family to pick raspberries in fields that are now houses and strip malls. My families farm in CT is surrounded by hotels, offices, restaruants, etc. You can't shoot the groundhogs anymore because the "neighbors" get excited. I point this out because everywhere you look we see more and more land that once was pristine get ruined, as I see it, for more strip malls and Ruby Tuesdays. I would like to keep as much land for public use as possible, and that means for hunting, fishing, camping, enjoying. Most of you are older than I and know more of what I speak than I do. You have seen your favorite hunting, fishing, shooting, and general outdoor areas dissappear and turned into this type of stuff. There is a god damn chemical plant where we used to shoot ground hogs that has polluted the stream the cows drink out of, since cleaned up.
I believe that the oil companies care very little about the land they ruin to obtain the oil. I believe that the amount of oil that can be obtained from the Artic preserve or off the coast of Florida is not worth the potential or certain destruction of habitat, or in the case of Florida oil slicks on beaches.
I believe that if the oil business wasn't so corrupt in the past and more open minded to other forms of energy that we would be further along than we are with alternate means of powering our automobiles. Which we need to change. We as a people are having a detrimental effect on our environment. I think the change needs to start with our source of energy, ie oil companies.
Too many times we environmental pinheads
get lumped into the groups with PETA and the like. Most of us aren't like that. Logging is ok, just not clear cutting. Mining is essential, but strip mining with no effort to return the land to anything remotely like what it was is downright ugly (anyone in Pennsylvania knows what I am talking about). I mean you don't blow your whole paycheck the day you get it if you want to live comfortably and maintain what you have. Why would you do the same with your resources, no matter how much you think you may have.
I guess I better cut it off there before I write a book.
Yes, I am an environmentalist but don't consider myself a liberal and yes I carry a gun.
