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Drilling in ANWR: What's Not to Like?

We must prevent the US from using its own natural resources at all cost. If the addict suffers terribly and then dies by going cold turkey, well I guess it just wasn't important enough to find an alternative.

We should be driving electric cars recharged by wind and solar power by now, right?

Ok sarcasm aside. Omega left out the pathetic truth that European countries are DECADES ahead of the US in nuclear energy, another resource the democrats have block employing.

As far as I can tell there are only two underlying reasons the democrats have continually block the efforts toward actual versus pie-in-the-sky theoretical energy independence:

1. Just can't stand the idea of some other party getting the credit
2. They want the Mid-East's problems to be our problems: if we did not depend on oil from the region, imagine how that would change the political landscape.

How many presidents have done the 'Mid-East Peace talks' dog and pony?
If the world's largest consumer of petroleum supplied itself, would Iraq have invade Kuwait?
Would the world hate the US for its interventionist policies?