Proposition+assertions+arctic

© Not sending people over seas
 * safer
 * less fuel for transport

© Improving US economy

© Arctic better than move populated areas
 * won't bother communities

© Keep money = powerful USA Government

© Arctic is big so not much impact on environment
 * even if an accident happens, not much will happen

© Gas prices will go down so people will be happier
 * Better economy for the U.S.
 * Cheaper gas

© America is improving technology to clean oil spills
 * endangered species safer from oil

Economy based on oil If prices keep going up, less to spend on small buisnesses, cannot spend other places == “[The ** Arctic ** refuge] plays a critical part in reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign energy,” said Alaska's Republican senator Frank Murkowski, a long-standing champion of the energy lobby. He claimed that the ** Arctic ** refuge could contain even more ** oil ** than Prudhoe Bay—enough to replace all American imports from Saudi Arabia for 30 years. ==
 * very important
 * cannot transport without oil