<Timing is Everything

"The House voted last year to allow drilling in the Alaska refuge. A Senate vote could come as early as the second week of April."

What political persuasion do you think those government biologists are?

To tell you the truth if Bullwinkle's cousin is under "substantial risk" or heck - if he get's wiped out altogether in exchange for 11.4 billion barrels of crude...its MORE than a fair trade.

It'll give the taxidermists more business, in the event of an ecological disaster.

The Middle East is home to a large segment of the craziest, most unintelligent peoples of the world - the less we have to rely on them, or deal with their violent tendencies and millenia-old religious fanaticisms, the happier I am.

Best wishes,

SDAI-Tech1

(Ok the taxidermist joke was over the line and is probably very offensive to the sensitive uzi-wielding Greens - but hey it's late, so cut me some slack!)