[Vermont Lt]

The problem with your assumption is the concept that we can stop exports. When we do that, our customers' source for oil will have dried up and their cost of production will skyrocket--or cease to exist.

The result will be more money chasing fewer goods. Even if ANWR were to be open for drilling it would be years before the oil there reached our pumps.

Whether we like it or not, we are a world economy and the elimination of that much oil from the system would much more than a "blip".