[Leisler]

I read that ANWR is so small an area of Alaska that if you imagine a horse, ANWR is a flea on the horse.

[the anti-liberal]

Or the postage stamp on a football field - a frozen Siberian wasteland that even the caribou and the rarefied (not) polar bears stay away from.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Actually ANWR is a fairly large region - hundreds of thousands of acres mostly snow and ice - but the “footprint” which would be used for drilling is quite small - about one-quarter the size of Manhatten - and since virtually no one ever visits the ANWR region, the idea of keeping it “pristine” is really a sham.......

[PapaBear3625]

I read that ANWR is so small an area of Alaska that if you imagine a horse, ANWR is a flea on the horse.

"Flea" might be overstating it

And it's located just 80 miles or so east of the existing Trans-Alaska pipeline. So you just need to construct a short leg on the pipeline to deliver the oil