GOP Campaigning In Alaska's Artic Wildlife Refuge To Promote Drilling

The Hill :

Five Republican congressional candidates will travel to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to promote drilling there to reduce the U.S.'s dependence on foreign oil.

"With gas prices at an all-time high, we need to take steps now to reduce our dependence on foreign oil," said trip participant Craig Williams, who is challenging Joe Sestak (D-Pa.). "We have energy resources available to us domestically that can cut our dependence on foreign oil and provide a bridge to tomorrow when we can more heavily rely on renewable energy resources such as hydro-electric, solar and wind power."

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Comments

[Mercedes]

With all the news about finding shale OIL in the Dakotas and the capped OIL wells in Oklahoma and Texas that still have LOTS of OIL, to the prospect of drilling offshore, why is ANYONE still talking about the ANWR? Doesn't Bush understand that this place is wild; in fact one of the few wild places left on EARTH, and that the puny bit of OIL there does not justify ANY drilling. Why does Bush hate polar bears, arctic foxes, caribou, seals, mountains, trees, snow and ice so much? Why does he want to destroy this beautiful place on our planet?