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Kennedy’s club makes a lame attempt at associating the Exxon spill as a defense for removing access to another great oil resource. Their implication is that if we allow more drilling in Alaska, it will be 1989 all over again.

Well, it has been 20 years and there were no spills before or since. Exxon has been heavily fined and Alaska have been incredibly successful at ensuring the safe operations of oil vessels in Alaska, something that the NIMBY’s like Robert don’t want you to know.

They say the death toll of Bears and other animals would be unimaginable. Actually, wildlife has recovered quite well from the Exxon spill and that was about as disastrous as you can get. It was the only such occurrence ever in Alaska’s history and was almost 20 years ago! Does the group advocate safety measures or closer monitoring of safe operation of vessels, etc.? Hardly, they want a moratorium on all drilling, even though Canada, right next door, are more of a threat and export much of their oil to the US.

In researching the article, we found the only factual statement made in this mailing is about the Exxon Valdez, and they conveniently skip over the facts regarding that incident. We continued our research and tried to find any incident involving an off-shore drilling rig that resulted a huge oil spill. We could not find one. Anywhere in the world! If you can, please leave us a comment and a link, because Robert sure missed it. But Robert would have you believe the first such oil spill in the word’s history is about to be unleashed on the bear population at any moment.

Kennedy and his crew call this an “attack” by big oil. No, Robert, it is an effort to use our own resources, because using others in the world guarantees that those nations will gladly deliver their resources to us without the same consideration for their environment. Big oil is not an evil monster out to get us Robert; the boogie man is not in your closet and there is nothing under your bed. The United States, including Alaska uses 24% of the world’s oil. It has to come from somewhere Robert. Where do you suggest it come from? I know, we can kill the Polar bears and burn their blubber for energy. Sound good Robert?

To top off their farcical charity plea, they also ask their readers to sign a petition that is a complete lie, so they can send it to the Secretary of the Interior.  Robert actually wants us to sign a lie and send him money.

If you make a large enough “gift” to this farcical lie of an institution, they will send you a polar bear tote bag. They don’t tell you how big the bag is or if it would be useful in any way, but you can know in your heart, while using your polar bear tote bag, that you helped propagate the non-endangered species of lying non-profit agencies.

We have decided to take Robert’s lead. We discovered in our research that polar bears like to eat seals. We are going to start a new conservationist group to protect the seals. We suggest we kill the Polar Bear population off today; send us $10 and we will do our best to wipe out those big bad bears so cute little seals can play all day without worry of being ripped to shreds by a 1000 pound bear.