what a beautiful view

While I’m on the topic of rants let’s just settle another thing that really bothers me. I understand Alaska is a beautiful place and it’s a hidden gem and this and that but why did the U.S. government waste a large amount of money on a scenic view? The answer is we didn’t!!! So why are we letting these nature lovers stop us from keeping our economy sound. If they like the place so much make them cough up millions to buy it otherwise let’s start the drilling to produce the oil. Just think about it 86% of our nations cost on oil is imported from Saudi Arabia and other Mideast countries. Now if we drilled in Alaska an oil treasure chest we can probably reduce that to about 20% import and maybe get ourselves out of this financial hole our government dug us into……