Success! The Arctic is open for drilling!

[sofa king]

17. I am so effing tired of this canard.

"Industry experts and national security officials view the Alaskan Arctic as the last great domestic oil prospect, one that over time could bring the country a giant step closer to cutting its dependence on foreign oil."

There is no way the United States can cut its dependence on foreign oil by using domestic oil. Domestic oil production peaked forty years ago and no new find is going to provide the unlimited supply of light sweet crude our refineries require. We'll have to sell more of our shitty oil to get less good oil from the same damned foreign sources, and then one day, we won't have either of them.

Furthermore, it is strategic folly to exploit our own shitty oil reserves for short-term profit when they are best kept right where they are while we use the oil reserves of our potential enemies, like, oh, the guys who flew planes into a couple of our buildings.

Notice also that the very next paragraph translates to, "But minorities and liberals say drilling is bad!" No, dammit! It's a goddamned national security issue that plays with the lives of hundreds of millions of future Americans.

USING OUR OWN OIL RESERVES IS A THREAT TO OUR FUCKING NATIONAL SECURITY, YOU ASSHOLES AT THE NEW YORK TIMES!