Show Alaska Oil Sits People Freeze There Is something heroically Ily foolish about an attitude of ecological morality that says say We must take care care of the caribou at all costs never mind what happens happen to people Amid the great fuel shortage that our country is now enduring and while the great oil fields discovered at great cost costoff costoff costoff off the Alaska north slope sit idle and unused and while people suffer from lack of heat beat the caribou in Alaska take their young to visit the pipeline camps to see ee how bow humans live But the mile mlle Alaska Pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to the Arctic Ocean to Valdez on the Gulf GuIt of Alaska almost due south is not being built It might bother the caribou say ay the self appointed I ecologists But that as a. a cause for forthe forthe forthe the delay of f this great project which would undeniably benefit people does not ring true For one thing a mile pipeline between Haines and Fairbanks Fairbanks Fair Fair- banks bank already exists in the I same territory territory ter ter- ter of the proposed Alaska line and nobody has bas alleged that the e. e caribou suffer from from It Arguments have even been raised over the precise width of the way right for forthe forthe forthe the Alaska Pipeline iJ can ean you get If you were to fh da human hair long eno enough gh to stretch across Cros the floor of your living room and you did lay the hair across the floor how much effect would it It have on on the atmosphere of 01 the room The width of the proposed proposed pro pro- posed pipeline in proportion to Alaska is far tar less than the width of a hair across your living room floor But because of this and similar useless useless use use- less debate the billion 3 project languishes languishes lan Ian while we look desperately about for ways way to meet the fuel crisis The seven oil companies concerned in the project make no outcry hoping for a return of sanity and enterprise that made this nation great indeed the kind of enterprise which made possible I the discovery dis covery of the oil It is a manufactured crisis that p passes all ali understanding |