Environmentalists claim that the Bush Administrations policies will decimate one of the last remaining wilderness areas on this continent. How do they respond to that?
A. I’m glad you brought this up, because this whole Arctic National Wildlife Refuge thing has been bugging me for months. You know what lives in the ANWR? Arctic wolves, that’s what. And if there were a rabid arctic wolf running loose in your living room you’d be terrified and screaming for help. And you’d damned well thank the first person who came in and shot it dead. It’s the same principle with oil exploration. Q. OK. That really didn’t make any sense. A. Let me give you another example. Suppose you had a train that left New York City traveling west as 70 miles per hour and another train that left Chicago – at the same time – traveling east at 50 miles per hour. Where would they meet? Q. Umm. I’m not sure. A.
