Drilling in ANWR Will Not Solve Our National Energy Crisis

How come pollution expense is passed onto the government and tax payers to clean up? In a so called free market the industry responsible for the pollution is responsible for the clean up. Those pollution expenses should be accounted for on their bottom line, held against their net sales and reported to their shareholders and stock exchange. For too long the polluting industries, coal, oil, nuclear and gas have been able to hold those down stream costs off the books.

Its time for a true accounting one without corporate welfare, one that takes into account health cost, cancer rates and the impact on overall productivity, and other market sectors, as well as clean up, remediation, storage and preservation - then lets see just how "profitable" are the dirty industries.

We not only need a true accounting we need true accountability.

Paul Burke, Journey Home of VA 9:09AM November 04, 2011