Do you believe that the US should drill in Alaska more to be able to supply this country with gas?

I honestly am not against it completely. The prices that we are paying now is outrageous.


Or would that be too horrible for the environment in your opinion?

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They should search for ways to drill without totally destroying the environment!!! (Yeah, I want the best of both worlds)

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I am on the fence on this one. It would be nice if they could do it harming as little as possible, but I'm not sure I trust that to happen. Even the oil there would run out, though, with the way we are dependent on oil.

Too horrible to the environment. People just need to cut back. Not the "cutting back" like they have been. Most people drive when they can walk or bike, and if they can't walk or bike drive the biggest gas guzzling vehicle they can.

I simply think it is so elitist to say that our snow covered mountains, frozen tundra, and even our recreational coastline is so much more environmentally important than some other country's sand dunes. Let's face it, oil wells are ugly and smelly. We will end up paying the price either way. We either pay everytime we look out our windows or we pay at the pump.

And yes, I think we need to find alternative fuels. Oil WILL run out. That motor vehicles don't have to exceed fuel efficiency of 30 miles to the gallon until 2010 is ridiculous. They could be exceeding that standard NOW, if only the car companies would quit dragging their feet.

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I don't support drilling in Alaska no matter how many precautions are taken something is going to happen and its too harmful for the environment. We are too dependant on oil and eventually (even) if we drill in Alaska one day it would run out of oil then what? we have to look somewhere else? Some states in the MIdwest already put Ethanol in the gas station and I think that's a start.

It is not worth being harmful to the environment and it will still run out eventually anyway. So, I think you can always plant corn but you can't plant oil. I try to walk whenever possible because it is good for me and the environment.

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Brooklyn 12-27-2005
Nolan 10-15-2007
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I do not support more drilling...it is such backward thinking...and if I were a really paranoid person I would think the oil companies are raising the prices so people get desperate enough to demand for drilling. Why aren't there alternative methods...why aren't we using our brains more...the oil companies brag about all the money they spend on alternative fuels, so what is the outcome of all this supposed research. The alternative wave is not mainstream yet so I argue their efforts have been mostly for show or are we still that stupid that we can't figure something better out. Think of it, we drill for oil out of the ground...it seems so backwards, so outdated. And why are we using corn oil, like we have enough water to put on corn? Why are we not using the sun (free, no drilling or watering necessary), or wind (again, free) more? I'm an accountant not an engineer so I don't know how to do it. Okay, off my soapbox rant.

I'm against it. Truthfully, what are we leaving for the next generation or the one after that. Never in Earth's history has there been such a consuming society as ours. At what point does it stop? I know there is no easy answer and even if there is an answer it's going to take someone a lot more intelligent than I am ... I guess at some point we just have to stop.