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On drilling, the federal Bureau of Land Management is opening about 360,000 acres of public land in Utah to oil and gas drilling. Bush administration officials argue that the drilling will not harm sensitive areas; environmentalists oppose it.
"They want to have oil and gas drilling in some of the most sensitive, fragile lands in Utah," John Podesta, Obama's transition chief said. "I think that's a mistake."

Its always on "sensitive land".

We have nothing to fear of evangelicals, unless of course they are evangelical environmentalists.

ANWR is not Yellowstone. ANWR got 1200 visitors last year. The the size of the drilling 'footprint' is minusculer compared to amount of energy recoverable. Downright tiny compared to land areas of wind and solar necessary to produce same amount. We need ALL sources to achieve energy independance. We can do it in environmentally friendly way.

I fear environmental extremism worse than i've ever feared islamic extremism.

So the new plants don't get built and the old dirty ones don't get retired. The boutique fuels (solar,wind) can't keep up with increased demand let alone replacing aging infrastructure. The power lines to the new wind/solar farms can't get built either due to enviros&nimbys . The old dirty plants have to be kept in service and everyone is the worse for it. Energy gets so expensive that the only solution is a windfall energy tax on Big Coal. Marvelous.