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70 comments on ANWR, and a midweek open thread

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Dave Cohen on November 3, 2005 - 7:53pm

I'm bothered that Matt Simmons is so keen on drilling in ANWR.

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steverino on November 3, 2005 - 8:36pm

matt simmons is , first of all , an oil man. why would you expect him to say anything different? he has never implied that oil was still not the central fixture of the u.s. energy picture...i wouldn't expect him to be growing corn on the back forty in order to make biodiesel, or cranking up a wind turbine so he can watch the tube.

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peakearl on November 3, 2005 - 9:17pm

Actually, he is an energy man more than an oil man from what I see. I see him promoting all ways to address the energy situation. He supports alternative energy as well as oil. He is just not an environmentalist in any conventional sense. He believes human well-being relies on adequate energy supplies of all kinds for food, transport and quality of life.

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Davidh on November 4, 2005 - 6:40pm

A lot of things about Matt Simmons bother me. While I'm not a big fan of "conspiracy" theories, he is a member of the CFR (like Judith Miller). I think one should always be careful about sleeping with your enemy's enemy.

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PhilRelig on November 6, 2005 - 9:39pm

I'm glad to learn that I'm not the only poster on theoildrum who has misgingings about Matt Simmons. I tried to raise these concerns on the open thread of Oct. 19, but the responses were uniformly replete with praise for Simmons (not that this praise is undeserved, but neither do they adequately quell all the misgivings):

http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2005/10/19/23321/213#comments