The United States government want's to drill for oil in Alaska. This will provide cheaper gas costs to the citizens of this fine country, but will also destroy habitats for many endangered species. =( I would be thoroughly excited to hear my fellow forumers opinions on this touchy subject.

I personally believe that we should not drill for oil in the habitat for endangered animals. I believe we should invest the money instead on searches for alternative fuels, like solar and geothermal energy.

Even if we did not harm the native species of Alaska, the oil would just end up polluting our unstable atmosphere. This would lead to all sorts of problems including but not limited to Global Warming.

And goodness knows we don't want that.

As if the environment hasn't been raped enough, Kiwi on an environmental high horse, change the song. But in saying that the drilling is unfortunately a necessary evil. For the moment there are no viable forms of alternative fuel; bio-fuel on a large scale would cause more problems than it would solve, nobody knows how the fuck to get at gas hydrates without blowing things up, natural gas is not exactly easy to transport, we won't see fusion power for 50 years at the very very least and the only solar plant big enough to power a city isn't even finished yet.

I think that given the current Global climate with reagrds to oil and the general credit crunch, the supply of oil needs to be increased in order for prices to subside and (espeicially in the UK) being some optimism about commodities in the future.

It is perhaps a necessary evil that the habitats of animals need to be destroyed in order to get to the oil tables. And as its been mentioned, so far there isn't a safe, cheap and viable alternative to producing power.

But i do like polar bears.

Im in favor of the drilling, the endangered species thing is pure speculation according to what i've been told. Endangered species extinction is sad, and i will be the first to say we should help them, but when it interferes with other peoples lives thats when it gets ridicolous. Plus...in the past million years many endangered species have become extinct due to natural causes. Why not just move the animals to a safe location, then both parties are pleased . We could also try to find a better energy source, as of now Oil and Coal seem to be the favorite & most effective, both of which are supposed contributions to pollution.

And as for as Global Warming, come on! Al Gore pollutes the world with his very luxurious private jet, limo, and mine, his house also uses up the same electricity as X amount of houses(forget number >.>), which doesn't really help the message hes trying to preach. But I think we should take small steps to making things better, even Bush which shocked me lives in an environmentally safe house .

-Kuja