A race against time
The New York Times laments that millions of acres of Utah backcountry and National Parks have been put in danger of energy exploitation in the waning days of the Dick "Drill now, drill everywhere" Cheney and George Bush administration.
This sort of pillage would be hard to justify even if Utah’s reserves were large enough to make a difference, which they are not. The Energy Information Administration says that Utah has 2.5 percent of the country’s known natural gas reserves and less than 1 percent of its known oil reserves. And even if those reserves were worth going after, it would still be essential to protect areas of special cultural, scenic and recreational value.The Obama administration will have to move quickly to limit the damage.
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Always the same argument. It's only 6%, 2.5%, 1%.
With this type of logic, we would shut down every oil and gas field down in the U.S. And that's exactly what the Tribune and the NYT want to do.
The New York Times needs to butt out and worry about New York!!
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