tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post115501459113783481..comments2024-03-06T03:15:58.539-05:00Comments on <b>THE NEW REFORM CLUB</b>: Oil's Well That Ends WellHunter Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1155023004612753462006-08-08T03:43:00.000-04:002006-08-08T03:43:00.000-04:00Kathy Hutchins gloriously returns to us (after a p...Kathy Hutchins gloriously returns to us (after a personal leave of absence) with ace precision, incision and derision.<BR/><BR/>Yay!<BR/><BR/>The idea of the United States opening its Arctic National Caribou and Mosquito Refuge to the exploitation of its oil has been pooh-poohed as a greedy grab of nature that would amount to only a single-digit percentage gain in national energy production.<BR/><BR/>A gain that would offset the present closing of the pipeline from the Prudhoe Bay fields which is causing so much market trouble, as it turns out.<BR/><BR/>Huh. Single digits add up. Often, they're the swing thing. <BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, we expect folks in the Third World to live alongside oil wells while we Americans are unwilling to esthetically inconvenience our larger mammals, not to mention our parasites.<BR/><BR/>Something's a little off. Maybe it's Third World People vs. Mosquitoes. I'm just not feeling this whole thing.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com