You do realize that drilling in undeveloped, third world countries, like those in Africa, is far cheaper than drilling in the U.S. do you not?
That being the case drilling here is pointless when it can be done so much more cheaply elsewhere.
What makes you think that?
So you would rather buy from over seas than by from home. You would rather put foreigners to work instead of U.S. workers. ANWR alone would give 35,000 union paying jobs to the American workers.