Did you know we have oil wells all over Ohio, literally in back yards, cow pastures, parks, woods , and every other place you can think of? ditto Pennsylvania, Western New York State, and God knows where else.
Do these tree hugging clymers actually think a Caribou is going to give a tinker's dam about living next to an oil well? Jeesh, this country has been taken over by the stupidly evil or the evilly stupid!
Drill Anwr, dammit. When the first well comes in, we'll meet at my house for some roast spotted owl and throw darts at Barbra Streisand and Diane Feinstein posters.
(BTW, did you ever notice the same people who want to preserve the environment have no qualms about allowing 10 million illegal aliens crowd into the US and have 10 kids apiece. This certainly hasn't helped the environment in Southern California. Without development, how are we supposed to feed, clothe, house, educate, and employ these Third World Border Bounders who are turning many areas into little Third World Hellholes?)
We probably don't need to drill the ANWR. There is probably sufficient extra oil yet to be found off the coasts of Florida and California, BUT THEY WON'T LET ANY WELLS BE DRILLED. Oil wells have been producing for decades off the coast of Louisiana and Texas without significant negative environmental impact, but FL. and CA. are "too good" to have such activity take place off THEIR "pristine" coasts (never mind the fact that natural oil seeps off shore of California emit far more oil than an oil platform ever will).
Eco-dumbasses!!!