I live in Alaska and have worked on the North Slope. What you posted is the flat out truth. Democrats, in blocking drilling there, prove themselves demogogues.
There is absolutely no reason at all to not drill there. The North Slope Eskimos ought to know the lay of the land if anybody knows it. And they say the same thing.
The beautiful pics the demogogues and the MSM use, supposedly of the drilling area, are taken in the Brooks Range which skirts the southern boundary of ANWR.
I’ve been there, on the coastal plain (North Slope), looking directly south, on the far horizon you can just barely make out the outline of the Brooks Range.
The democrats and the MSM, their willing partners, are liars.
I sort of wish GWB would issue some kind of emergency directive—just go ahead and drill, then let the Dems try to stop it. I guess it’s probably unrealistic, but his very resolve might help push world prices down.