[SampleMan]

Oil is a commodity. Thus, unless supply is cut off (war) burning our own oil vs. someone else's oil doesn't bring down the cost one cent.

Total supply / Total demand = Price

Adding ANWR would increase our war reserve and/or increase total supply.

A side note is that increased domestic production (war reserve) provides some leverage to hold down prices. OPEC must keep in mind our ability to produce or purchase elsewhere (Russia), before they go too radical.

Build new, pebbliest reactors throughout the U.S. Make them safe from attack or accident (pebble-beds are impossible to melt down) and design and market very small two-person commuting cars to augment the family cruiser. I've bee west of the Pecos and throughout Nevada and I think God made that land just for the purpose of burying nuclear waste.

[Outlaw76]

" I've bee west of the Pecos and throughout Nevada and I think God made that land just for the purpose of burying nuclear waste."

Can I hear a hell yeah? I knew I could.
After my very first drive across the high desert of California through Arizona and New Mexico I wondered why in the hell we had problems with land fills and getting rid of nuke waste. Never seen a better place for burying stuff and forgetting about it.