No, like I said every drilling rig in this country is working, pipe movements is at an all time high. If you do not believe me google the nation current rig count. Being involved in the oil industry in the past I keep up with these things. Think what would happen to the price of oil and the supply of it if all imports was cut off. It would be a catastrophe. For one there are not enough rigs available to drill and even if we did there wouldn't be enough pipe because we have depended on imports for our supply. We can never let our domestic food supply diminish to the point that we could be in peril.
So are you saying it is cheaper to drill out in the middle of the ocean, two miles underwater and another mile into the bedrock, than to drill for oil in the U.S. mainland?
And I know for a FACT this is oil in parts of the U.S. that a LOT closer than Alaska, like the state of Georgia which has test wells from the 1950's and Utah: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1388012/posts