Alaskan Oil Drilling

December 29th, 2008 | About Drilling

Alaskan oil drilling often has environmentalists up in arms. One wrote: I can’t believe this is even an issue. Areas of Alaska are the last untouched wilderness we have. What will people do when it’s gone? If we wreck it, it will become a memory. Let’s keep one place like it was before man stepped in and ruined things.

A reply to that is as follows. Man is not a plague or an infestation. The issue is not destroying the planet. We’re not capable of that. The issue is whether man would ever make the planet unlivable for man. That would come long before the planet was doomed. For the most part man’s efforts have improved the planet for habitation by man. So shut up.

A reply to the reply is that it’s fine to discuss issues, but don’t be mean about it.

One pro drilling person chimed in with this. She said: The area under contention for Alaskan oil drilling would be like a dime on a table top. It’s tiny. There’s a lot of oil there that we need. There are many ways to ensure very little environmental impact even directly in the areas where drilling takes place.

A reply to her is: Let’s stop this drilling for the children. If everyone wears a windmill on their head, we won’t need any more oil.

Sometimes people against Alaskan oil drilling just don’t understand basic facts. One wrote the following: I refuse to use oil. I don’t drive. I heat my home with a wood fire place. My power comes from only green sources. Everyone can do it if they put their minds to it.

Yet that person typed their opinion on a computer. The computer case, and many of the components are plastic. That’s petroleum based. That’s oil. Now what?

People for Alaskan oil drilling can be just as clueless: Who cares about a malibou breeding. Give me oil! I want to drive my SUV. Sometimes I leave it running all night. The sound of the engine is soothing.

That’s caribou, not malibou. Maybe someday soon someone will steal your SUV while you leave it running. It would serve you right.