"Alaska is much larger than France and Germany — combined. Yet its population is less than one-tenth that of New York City. Keep that in mind the next time you hear some environmentalist hysteria about the danger of "spoiling" Alaska by drilling for oil in an area smaller than Dulles Airport."
Related: Jonah Goldberg's entertaining 2005 article on the controversy over proposed drilling for oil in ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge):
Ugh, Wilderness!
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