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Drill for oil in Alaska? No: Save energy, invest in renewables instead

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the United States' largest wildlife refuge made up of more than 19 million acres, would not only wreak environmental havoc on the land and the 160 different wildlife species that live there, it also would do absolutely nothing to curb our obsessive consumption of foreign oil, the true cause of the oil shortage and exorbitant gas prices we're experiencing. Opening the refuge to oil exploration, with no guarantee of how much oil ... Read »
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