Good luck waiting for your perfect candidate.  The drilling decision should be decided on science, not politics.  I hardly think $4/gallon gas is a crisis.  It's provided the best incentive in 30 years for Americans to stop buying wasteful SUVs and for research into REAL ALTERNATIVES to our dependency on oil.  If you are following the news, you would understand that this is actually happening RIGHT NOW.  Auto makers are scrambling to design small, fuel-efficient vehicles to their customers and are backing off of releasing gas guzzling models.  University research teams and entrepeneurs are DAILY coming up with great new ideas for alternative energy.  Your understanding of the scientific arguments against drilling is that of a third grader's (as evidenced by your focus on two charismatic species), and I don't have the time to educate a person who doesn't give a fuck about the planet that provides us with conditions suitable for life itself.  Now that I see that you don't even have the spine to vote, I doubt I will bother responding to your posts again.  We are just too different to find common ground I guess.  That's too bad. 

by desertpear on 06/26/2008 04:10:22 PM EST

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