The New Cold War?

I hope you got a chance to watch this story I did recently on the Alaskan Oil Pipeline being threatened with closure.

If the EPA continues with its pattern of crushing regulation and draconian permitting practices, we may well see the end of the Alaskan Oil pipeline in the next few years. This would spell disaster for our country's bid to become independent of foreign oil.

And while nobody in Congress or the White House can seem to decide if we should allow drilling in the arctic, our "competitors," that is, Russia and China, are putting together plans to do just that. 

So while the United States dithers and argues about sustainability and green energy, we may soon watch while Russia pumps oil from the Arctic that we could have pumped ourselves, then sells it back to us.

On a more cheerful note, the planned community Russia is building in the Arctic is the stuff of science fiction movies. I would love to visit once they get the dome in place.