Why do some people oppose drilling for oil thats there for the taking?

Caribou don't vote ya know.Why do some people oppose drilling for oil thats there for the taking?
A field mouse may be displaced.Why do some people oppose drilling for oil thats there for the taking?
That's a funny thing you brought up. Maybe because the libs have so much invested privately in solar and wind power. Imelt and Gore have millions invested in solar and wind. hmmmm do you suppose that could be the answer ? Suppose your gore and imelt, and you ';buy'; a few politicians, hm. now, suppose that you also control an empire that also controls one of the biggest news networks in the world. How would you make money ? Well, you find somebody like gore with a face everyone knows and you give him a crash course in global warming, then you start getting him to go around and make speeches at colleges etc, then also to make a doc. that gets a nobel piece price, hm. then you invest all of your personal wealth you can afford to tie up in factories that will gain the most if you can pull it off Starting to make sense to you now ? You instantly get all the super far out left loons behind you and you have launched your next billion dollars or so of personal wealth. In the meantime you fly around in your oversized jet everywhere you want to go and waste more fuel taking off then 100 families just out for a sunday drive.
We don't want to destroy the beauty of the few natural places we have left. Also, if we use that oil up now, there will be none for future generations of Americans. Oil is an important raw material for the manufacture of many products, including almost anything made of plastic. I don't think we should be in such a rush to burn it all.
Because a lot of it is in protected areas and the fear is that drilling could harm the environment. We need to stop our dependence on oil, the whole world is running out of it, so there's no time like the present to find a better means of powering our cars, homes, etc. We also have to stop treating the earth like a garbage dump.
Things like the National Geographic report on endangered species don't help.


They listed this low number of caribou in existence - with a small astrix noting that the number they listed only counted those in the lower 48 states.





Talk about manipulating the numbers!
Because it would create more jobs, therefor, less dependency on the government, resulting in less power for the government. This is the only answer.
Because the environmentalists who are a very SMALL minority are pushing their views on the majority.





Because there has been discovered an oil shale deposit under the Rocky Mountains that's larger than the entire middle east.
People don't want to see oil wells, there could be enviromental damage but we have safer drilling technology then China, and people have nothing better to do.
because that would mean we would not depend on foreign oil, and could not lie about gas creating global warming and politicians would not have a reason to put American auto companies out of business
A misperception of what the ANWR looks like where they want to drill
it might harm a yet undiscovered purple spotted pink polka dotted yellow striped cockaroachabug!!!!! Or something of that nature the environuts will dream up.
They are concerned for the wildlife. I say its OK. But really, if they cant adapt.... (animals)
Because oil that comes from somewhere beside the Middle East would screw their ';blood for oil'; argument all to hell.
The tree huggers are saving the coastal oil for the Chinese, and they are already there.
No but we do only have 1 planet to live on-





and only so much pristine wilderness left-
it is a scam to keep oil prices up ,and it is done by the democrats
Because they are tree huggers.
Because they want to keep us dependent on people who hate us..
Oh my gosh, someone has to pay for Al Gore's retirement funding and big house he lives in! What the poor man to do?