Amid the backdrop of soaring oil and gasoline prices, a sharply divided Senate on Wednesday voted to open the ecologically rich Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling, delivering a major energy policy win for President Bush.

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I guess that petition I signed in Harvard Square didn’t help.

You can guess how I feel about this. Words cannot express my sadness and fear.

Maybe the government could do more to encourage us to use less oil instead of destroying everything beautiful to get more and more and more to feed us with.