[HarryCaul]

I would assert ANWR would have no appreciable affect on gasoline prices, sure. Perhaps a tiny effect, if any, in the short run, but next to none in the long run.

It's just not that big a percentage to add to the overall flow.

It's worth doing, but it's not any sort of solution to gasoline prices.

[KQQL]

I BET IF RUSSIA STILL OWNED AK< THEY WOULD HAVE ALREADY DUG UP ANWR FOR OIL and GAS.

[Dr. Frank fan]

I think we agree. It would lower prices a tiny bit (increase in supply always does that) but probably not much.

And it certainly wouldn't "solve" gasoline prices, whatever that is supposed to mean. Gasoline prices are going to remain nonzero.

I guess the real problem is that Kerry was attacking a straw man. I don't know anyone who thought opening ANWR to drilling would "solve" the sociopolitical that there are gasoline prices. ;-P