I predict no Snow in the forecast. But if by some odd chance the Bush White House is even more brain dead than I think they are, and they actually bring one of the Fox 'news'bald-faced propagandists on board, it's going to make Bush's credibility sink even lower.

Here's a sample of Snows' first press conference:

Snow: OK, let's get started. How about you, Carl?

Carl Cameron of Fox: Thank you Tony. By the way, I love your hair. My first question has to do with Bush's suit. He's wearing a dark blue suit today, white shirt and red neck tie. That sure does look patriotic, am I right?

Snow: That's correct Carl. Bush is our nation's greatest patriot. Ah let's see, you over there in the back, please give your name and organization.

Jeff Gannon: I'm Jeff Gannon with the new American Eagle Magazine. I love your hair too, sir. I just want to ask, given the current climate of acrimony and vile wretchedness of the terrorist-loving media, how does our Jesus-loving wonderful president manage to look so unwrinkled in that beautiful blue suit?

Snow: I'm glad you asked that, Jeff. The president takes almost as much pride in his choice of suits as he does leading our nation through these troubled times.

Gannon: Can I ask a follow up question?

Snow: Sure Jeff. Go ahead. Ah, this will be the last question we have time for today.

Get a good thematic map of the areas of the North Slope of Alaska that shows the geopolitical boundries of the ANWR and previously developed oil and gas plays like Prudhoe Bay. They are available on the web from several sources including the State of Alaska and the USGS. Google everything you can find with combinations of the keywords ANWR, Alyeska Pipeline, Prudhoe Bay etc.

I have done so. You may not reach the same conclusions I did, but here's some things the average American doesn't know or even care about. (According to me).

The existing Alyeska Pipeline is now 31 years old. According to the very complete Alyeska website, the pipe is running at 100 percent of capacity 24/7 except when they run a "pig" through the pipe to check for cracks, corrosion and other internal deterioration.

And there is deterioration. Crude oil, even the sweetest and purest in the world contains corrosive hydrogen sulfide. So like the blood vessels of an 89 year-old man, the walls of the 48" diameter Alyeska pipe are getting thinner each passing year, eaten away from inside by the corrosive HS, and by the shear scouring action of fluid erosion. The pipe is not straight. Every time the liquid meets an elbow in the pipe, the fluid goes from a laminar flow to a turbulent flow. This turbulence, this friction, is eating at every joint of the pipe for the 800 mile ride the crude oil takes from Prudhoe to Valdez.

What I'm saying folks, is that the Alyeska Pipeline is coming to the end of its life.

You never see anything about this on any television network or cable show dealing with our energy crisis. Not CNN, not Fox, Not even PBS. Nobody is talking about this.

They should.

Because the petroleum industry doesn't want to talk about this either. It complicates things for them. They are pushing to extract resources from the ANWR, but what they hate talking about is what's going to happen when the wells come on line.

First off, Pruhoe Bay is not done yet. After all the crude oil in the easy pay sands has been sucked out, they can go back for the next 30 years using an acid fracturing process and compressed steam to squeeze lots of oil out of those depleted fields. So the Alyeska pipe is going to be at 100 percent capcity until it finally hemmorages like that 89 year old man, and dies.

Another thing to contemplate is the fluid dynamics of liquids. I like to use the garden hose analogy. If you run water through a garden hose (Alyeska's garden hose) at 100 percent capacity, you cannot get any more volume to come out the end of the hose if you bring in a second line upstream (the additional input from a second pipe or pipes coming in from ANWR 200 miles east).

You know what this means? A NEW PIPELINE!!! Yep. Halliburton (Dick Cheney's boys) is already drawing up engineering plans for an Alyeska replacement pipe. Bigger, better, stronger, and able to transport not only crude oil, but the abundant natural gas byproducts that are now being flared off as waste at Prudhoe Bay, adding to the destruction of the ozone.

Now here's another conclusion that I draw: We owe the Chinese Communists about what? Two trillion? Who knows? The OMB won't give accurate figures. But anyway, the closest American refineries to the Port of Valdez are in California. They are running at 100 percent capacity also.

Where is all this oil and gas going to go when the ANWR comes on line in about 2012 or 2015? Why, it's going straight to the deep water ports of China, which are less distance than California from Valdez. America will pay off its huge debt to China using American oil and gas from Alaska and you will never ever run a drop of it through your car's engine!

So here's the conclusion. 1. New Halliburton ANWR super pipe. 2. American oil going to China. 3. At least 15 to 20 years before ANWR comes on line.

Any questions?