Angie Craig: “This country cries out for a clear, well developed policy for both the production and the transmission and/or shipment…”

“This country cries out for a clear, well developed policy for both the production and the transmission and/or shipment of energy that we clearly have found ourselves now lacking and in need of. Every American is finally beginning to feel the pinch of energy; in this case, the lack thereof--whether it is at the gas pump, or whether it is in the power bill they receive monthly, or their space heating bill, or the cost of the goods that have a major component of energy in them. The ANWR issue is not an environmental issue. It never has been, and it never will be. It is a political issue. The technology of today will protect that environment. When the oil is extracted and the wellheads are gone, it will hardly be noticeable that man, in the form of his modern technology, was there. This is a political issue by interest groups who need a cause.”