[Old School]

lol, that has to be the dumbest comment I have heard in a long time. But I cant expect much more from the uneducated.

Drilling in Alaska will not effect prices, if it does, it will be very marginal, like say 2-4 cents a gallon.

And I dont know about you, but I would rather breathe, and have safe drinking water, than I would to save a dollar on a tank of gas.

How can it not effect the price?

ANWR has over 19 million acres and were only wanting to drill on 2,000 acres of the coastal plains region which is about 1/100 of one percent.

The 2,000 acres of the coastal plain region is in close proximity to the Alaskan pipeline only 74 miles away. ANWR reserve has over 50 Billon barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of recoverable cubic feet of gas, which could last for more than 25 years.

Another interesting fact is that currently the pipeline is only running at 75% capacity because peak oil production Alaska has been in the decline since the 1988. Oil supplys from the Alaskan North Slope account for 25% of the U.S. domestic production.