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| "President Bush and some members of Congress will do just about anything to drill in the Arctic plain, an area often described as "America's Serengeti" for its rich variety of wildlife. In December, we had to drill because of the threat of conflict with Iran. Now it's Iran plus gasoline prices. Forget that it might take as long as 17 years, according to drilling supporters, before any oil found in the refuge reaches market. "......The number of truly wild places is shrinking as population and development expand. I will never hike the Arctic plain, but I know that its continued existence — unspoiled — is worth a thousand times more than its destruction, no matter the price of
oil."
Los
Angeles Times
"Hands off ANWR" May 6, 2006
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| "The sensible thing would be to craft a plan for gradually reducing our huge demand for
foreign oil."
Contra Costa [CA] Times, Monday May 01, 2006
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| "Indeed, if politicians were being honest about breaking the addiction, they'd admit that it
might make sense to hope that gas prices stay high -- which would drive down demand
and perhaps spur businesses to get real about alternative fuel technologies and improved
auto mileage."
Los Angeles Times, Friday April 28, 2006
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| "However, we agree with those in Congress who believe the job of re-tooling Detroit and
the American motorist mind begins with tougher mileage standards for all passenger
vehicles - raising the CAFE standards. Today, 40 miles-per-gallon no longer seems farfetched."
San Gabriel Valley [CA] Tribune, Monday May 01, 2006
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| "The anything-but-amusing idea by Senate Republicans to send every American
household a $100 'gas-tax holiday' rebate is political pandering at its worst. Why not justgive everyone who shows up to vote Nov. 6 a crisp Benjamin? So, too, is the Senate
Democrats' plan to suspend the 18.4 cents-per-gallon federal gas tax for 60 days —
right before we drivers vote."
Tracy Press, Sunday April 30, 2006
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| "Almost a year after passing the administration's energy bill, President Bush and
congressional Republicans are finally asking: Was this law really necessary? And the
emerging answer, in the backlash over rising gas prices, is: No. At least for that part of
the $12.3 billion measure that provides generous tax breaks and subsidies to the oil and
gas industry."
Ventura County [CA] Star, Friday April 28, 2006
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| "The claim is made that the refuge's coastal plain…can be explored, drilled and drained of oil without harming or compromising…the fish, polar bears, caribou, wolves and birds (160 species) it sustains. That's grossly misleading. The oil is scattered at 30 different sites across the 1.5-million-acre plain. Extracting it would require not just a limited number of drilling rigs — as drilling proponents claim — but service roads, or at best constant helicopter flights, and a network of small pipelines and pumping stations that would lead to one larger pipeline snaking across the Arctic plain to the terminus of the trans-Alaska pipeline at Prudhoe Bay. In other words, the industrialization of
wilderness."
The Los Angeles Times, Monday May 08, 2006
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