"Snow Job on Arctic Drilling," your Oct. 1 editorial opposing oil exploration in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, was surprisingly uninformed. While your concern for preserving elk habitat is laudable, there are no elk within 750 miles of the Arctic. Perhaps this effort would be better directed toward tule elk conservation in California.
Similarly, you deny California's most important connection to Alaskan oil (other than environmental fund-raising): Your state refines nearly 1 million barrels of Alaskan oil every day. By law, Alaskan oil must be transported in U.S.-built, U.S.-flagged, U.S.-crewed, double-hulled tankers, including three new tankers being built in California shipyards over the next three years.
