So who owns all this oil in Alaska that Sarah Palin wants to drill?

While it won't affect the price or consumption much, I'm more bothered by the moral aspect of sucking ever last drop of oil from the planet and burning it.

There's an old Native American saying: we don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors but borrow it from our children. I'm sure not all the tribes thought this way, but we never really heard as much from the dissenters, because they self-extinguished themselves with short-sighted piggishness.

Do we have a moral right to suck dry every last drip of oil from the planet? Sure we need it for building blinking sneakers and scented toilet paper, but what will future generations need it for?