I am ashamed to have lived a large part of my life in the state that spawned this idiot. This past weekend Congressman John Boner Boehner (R-Ohio) headed up to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on a “hard-hitting congressional fact-finding mission”, AKA: a bullshit Alaskan vacation paid for by the tax payers so he could probably go fishing or something. The purpose of which was to do everything possible to avoid finding facts.

“We’re going to look at this barren, Arctic desert where I’m hoping to see some wildlife,” Boehner told reporters before the trip. “But I understand there’s none there. But I’m still going to look for it. If I find any, I’ll let you know.”

Does he seriously expect us to believe that he is going to find out anything other than “no wolves up here, drill away” when he makes statements like that before he even leaves?

I’m sure he was looking real hard. At the floor, his lap, or wherever else he could avert his eyes to keep from seeing the thousands of polar bears, caribou, birds, musk ox, wolves and brown bears that call the Arctic Refuge home.

This trip amounts to a free publicity stunt for big oil. Boehner and his delegation flew all the way up to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, just so they could pretend like they didn’t see anything.

That way, they can start the drilling and guarantee that in a few years there really won’t be anything left to see. Not to mention the fact that even if they pumped out all the oil in the world it wouldn’t be enough to supply growing demand. Drilling for more oil is a dead end exercise in futility. If we want to solve our energy problems, and our climate problems there is only one solution….STOP USING OIL, at least for energy. You want to solve America’s energy problems, and create a whole bunch of new jobs, try some renewable energy.

I am sure that Boehner and his ilk don’t have a long record of voting for whatever the oil/coal/gas puppet masters tell them to…I am sure if you look up their congressional record you wouldn’t find that they almost always vote exactly how big oil wants them too….no I am sure thats not it.

If you live in the areas these people “represent” why not call them up and tell them that you support NOT drilling in a wildlife refuge, and that you would rather have some jobs move into your district, and maybe they could think about offering some tax breaks to a wind turbine manufacturer or something…just a suggestion.