not nice to fool with mother nature dept.

repair of the gulf coast would've been underway a couple years ago, but the white house opposed funding it. from world's only super power to bush leaguers in 5 short years, all because we'd rather fight than fix wetlands.

years ago, detroit bigwigs convinced auto workers they'd lose jobs if the US stopped making gas guzzlers. now the roads are full of imports, gm and ford are struggling, and chrysler is german.

anwr is more of the same. if we drill in the arctic, we extend US petroleum consumption about 6 months after the rest of the world runs dry—or maybe 2 years, if the wildest predictions come true.