RE: RE: RE: The Threat of Oil Drilling

Behethland B. Clark responds to Steve Brenneis:

Tourists aren't allowed to go anywhere in the Hawaiian volcanic region because it's dangerous! It's a volatile environment. Same as with much of Yellowstone National Park. You can't allow people to just stroll willy-nilly through geysers and fumeroles. But you can still see them from a walk-way or over a short fence.

On the topic of man changing his environment; yes, of course we do. But nature allows for a certain amount of that change. We breathe and create carbon dioxide which is toxic to us, but essential to trees and other plants. The environment isn't designed to repair itself from bulldozers and oilspills. And I know that some things must be change in order to progress. But the Alaskan Refuge isn't a high oil-yield area and it isn't just the Sierra Club that says so, either.

What about solar energy and ethanol as automobile fuel? The reason these two sources aren't embraced is that there's no corporate entity backing them, thus no big-bucks incentive.

It just seems to me that everything comes down to money with conservatives and that is why it's so hard to swallow.

And what's wrong with sandals?!