Big Game for America's Energy Security
by Charli Coon (October 13, 2003)

And the part that would be touched? It's a flat, treeless area that is solid ice all winter and mosquito-ridden swamp the other 70 days of the year. The area endures 58 straight days of darkness each year, during which temperatures can hit 70 below zero. Jonah Goldberg, an editor at "National Review Online" who went to the area, writes: "If you wanted a picture to go with the word ‘Godforsaken' in the dictionary, ANWR would do nicely."

Moreover, the area's 1,500 inhabitants--who have seen their neighbors to the near north become economically comfortable from a quarter-century of safe, clean oil exploration at the Prudhoe Bay, Sourdough and Kuparuk oil fields--support drilling by 4 to 1.

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