The filthy demonrats dont want ANWR drilled,,, But the republicans have been running the government for the last 6 yrs and they persist in OBEYING the wishes of the filthy demomrats on not drilling in ANWR...
Someone whos a died in the wool republican party-man wanna tell us why??
That chart tells a good part of the story:
http://energy.senate.gov/legislation/energybill/charts/chart8.pdf
domestic production in places like ANWR is controversial (polling consistently indicates that only around 35% of voters have a strong preference for doing so) and even best-case domestic production is pretty much a side-show in the big picture - it's just not worth spending the political capital.