Katmandu wrote:
FreedomKJ wrote:
Wells and mines and all the things that go along with them would definitely damage the beauty of Moab as well.
Do you really want to place vanity over buying (adding to our foreign debt) dino oil from countries that support terrorists ?
Think about it my friend.
As someone with some pretty in depth and personal experience on the subject I can promise that National Security is high on my list of priorities, as is getting us off of foreign oil. However, it's a lot more complicated than just drilling more here.
Most of the oil we use comes from other countries. We drill a lot more in the US than we actually use (of our own oil that is, not total usage). Most of the oil drilled here in the US gets sold to countries that the first group of countries won't sell it to. It's all a very complex and highly political and profit driven system far beyond what I'd like to get into here, and goes above the level that I can call myself authoritative on.
Aside from all that, they aren't looking to drill crude oil in Moab, and any new mines and wells won't create anything that we, or any wheelers, bikers or hikers, will get to use. The old mining that left us our current trails was uranium mining that lost its profitability (in the Moab region) long ago. If they start drilling for natural gas and mining potash you can be sure they'll keep doing it till long after we're dead and when they're done they'll just put up a big fence and a "KEEP OUT" sign.
The only people that will benefit from this are the politicians &BLM people getting kickbacks and the mining/drilling companies.
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