| The importance of that National Wildlife (nature) reserve is that few tourests will contaminate it, I hope 90 percent of people never step foot in there, it is not for human pleasure but for wildlife.
But it is important for some of the population who wish to maintain a real wildlife area for future generaitons to experience (the other national parks with their garbage can bears are shameful) as we should have a place where you can go and sit and not see any signs of human culture, no planes in the sky, no background noise from machine vehicles -etc, no phone poles and wires, no paved highways, parking lots, or hotels. Just pure wilderness. That area is one of the few places we have left under our rule that we can keep as-is.
Drilling for more oil is pointless because we get enough from Canada and a little bit elsewhere and we normally are overstocked without enough factories to refine it all. Plus, we have a large number of oil wells here in the USA that are not operating because they cannot make a good enough profit on the oil (at the price rate of the pre-Bush era). Now Bush already gave a oil company in his home state three million to explore for more oil - if they had got the green light to drill in Alaska then Bush would have budgeted more tax money to give to his oil buddies to go exploring up younder. So at least we should wait til the oil men move out of the White House before attempting to pass laws about and for their interests. (don't ask me to provide sources for the info I related - do your own research). |