Hmmm, I liked Obama's refusal earlier in the summer to back the silliness of a summer gasoline tax holiday, but now I'm not sure I'm completely in line with his new thinking. I'm all for weaning ourselves off Venezuelan and Middle Eastern oil within a decade (though I can't imagine that will actually happen.) What I'm no so excited about is the interest in opening up more Alaskan wilderness to drilling for several reasons:
- There are ample federal lands where oil companies already have concessions and are doing nothing with them
- We only have so much wilderness - leave it alone!
- We should be spending that money, yes THAT MUCH money, on conservation technologies and alternative energy technology
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