re: #172 ausador

Please don’t get ticked off too easily, many people down in the lower 48 actually believe the puff pieces the media feed them about ANWR. That it is some small ecological paradise that needs to be protected from oil exploration and development so as not to disturb the Caribou.

They have not been there, they have not seen it, they don’t know that ANWR alone is as large as most of the states down here and that the majority of it is pretty much lifeless mudflats. They don’t know that on the North Slope the Caribou herds that were dying out from Native American “subsistence” hunting now have rebounded and are reaching record levels.

The fourty thousand acres or so of ANWR that the oil companies want to use would irreparably destroy the entire eco system and kill the poor baby Caribou, they have been told it, they accept it, they just don’t know any better, sorry. :(

(17 year Alaska resident)

yep, they’re all ignorant to the facts, so they insult people to cover up the fact that they are uninformed.