This is why the price of oil is so high, the environmentalists make it impossible to drill:

But the judge ruled the Forest Service didn’t consider how degrading the area could harm tourism, and said the agency did a “woefully inadequate” job of evaluating how the drilling might affect the Kirtland’s warbler, an endangered songbird that nests in the area.
Two environmental groups, the Sierra Club and Anglers of the Au Sable, sued the government to halt the drilling. Joining the suit was Tim Mason, whose grandfather, auto executive George Mason, donated the original 1,200 acres to the state upon his death in 1954 and asked that it be maintained as wilderness.
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“We’ve said from the beginning we didn’t want to stop them from drilling,” said Marvin Roberson, a forest policy specialist with the Sierra Club. “We want them to drill from a place that won’t be harmful to the old-growth forest or the recreational experience.”

Bull crap! They don’t want us to drill in ANWR, off the coast, and now in a forest if it will harm tourism. Tourism? Since when has that been a criteria? Where the heck is it OK to drill? You will always have some fish, bird, animal, resident and now tourist that will be impacted by drilling, so you never will find a site where it’s OK to drill.
The Republicans should run and ad campaign using this case as an example of why our oil prices are so high. Maybe the public would stop letting the environmentalists push us around and would pressure Congress to pass real legislation that would allow the oil companies to drill and wave all environmental laws. Yeah, that will never happen.