Canada and Mexico are our two biggest oil importers and most of the oil coming from those two countries travels a shorter distance to the US refineries then would oil from ANWAR. Drilling in ANWAR would reduce gas prices by about 5 cents a gallon, not to mention it would take about a decade before this oil would hit the market. The growing number of drivers in China and India will exponentially outpace any additional oil that we find here at home. The tree huggers aren't the problem. It's the oil companies and Detroit automakers that convinced Americans that they should drive trucks and SUVs, so that they could make huge profits. So, now we're paying the price. That's how it goes. The US should have seriously started working on alternative fuels many, many years ago and then this wouldn't have been so damned painful. We still have it good here. Just got back from Paris, where gas is over 9 bucks a gallon now!

And as far as global warming goes, I guess the thousands of leading climatologists around the world are all full of ****. Yeah, I'm sure they're all wrong. Yes, I've thought about it now, I know far more than they do. What a bunch of dumb asses they are.