[ChildOfThe60s]

If we had more domestic supply, they wouldn't be able to build up supply fears, and geopolitics probably wouldn't have as much of a play in oil prices either.

RIGHT!
I have been telling my whining lib friends this for years. We don't have to be "self-sufficient" to lower prices. If the US produced 2 million more barrels a day (we easily have the oil in ANWR and offshore), that would provide the cushion on the world market needed to push prices down.

I am sick of libs saying that since ANWR won't supply the US will all its oil, there's no point in drilling there.

[georgia2006]

self sufficiency has nothing to do with prices.

Canada is self sufficient yet after hurrican katrina and rita, gas prices approached $5 per gallon there.