Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 16:01:00 -0800 (PST)
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From: "Maher, Steve (SD-MS)" <SMAHER@PO2.GI.COM>
Subject: re: gasoline politics
>did you hear congress passed a bill to allow oil drilling in a nat'l
wildlife
>refuge in Alaska "to make money to reduce the deficit" ha. and i have a
>bridge to sell you. Goodbye caribou ( the drilling site is at the
caribou's
>breeding site, to which they migrate every year)
Caribou are indigenous to all of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and I
believe most of northern Russia. ALL of these caribou go to this one
location in Alaska to make whoopee? I think not. (Oh, how cruel,
heartless, etc.)
>funny enough, the Alaska senator is now saying they don't want to share the
>oil taxes 50 50 with the feds, but 90 10.
...and they then return a lot of it to the citizens of Alaska. Kudos!
>so for those who say, well you drive, don't bitch, I say, you can't
really
>believe that these companies are acting in anyone's interest but their own
>pockets.
Why, that's horrifying!!! How DARE they look out for themselves??? They
should GLADLY accept decisions that go against business interests, and set
them at a disadvantage to other companies who are trying to compete them
right into the ground!
>What wrong with holding them to standards that are in the public's
>interest?
See above. Do you think oil companies going out of business, are in "the
public's interest"? I can't believe people still fall for this tunnel-
vision-oriented poppycock.
>Caribou are important too.
I'll support my family before I support caribou... and, right now, I can't
do both. Maybe I could if half my income wasn't going for income taxes,
sales
taxes, etc. etc. Sorry, caribou-- that's what you get for being the wrong
species in a world of Human Chauvinist Sapiens.
>They don't drive cars.
Too much time resting after long treks for making whoopee. :^)
<now taking this offline, while changing into asbestos underwear yet again>
Steve Maher smaher@gi.com '71 VW Transporter, great for making whoopee
'80 V6anagon, jury's still out