Fact, ANWR isn’t about oil. Its a proxy for all sorts of things, and oil isn’t really one of them. Ok its not really a fact, but if you think about it it sure has a lot of fact like qualities.

Even if we went forward with drilling in ANWR, its a small amount, too small for the controversy, of oil. It wouldn’t move the price of oil in the short term and it more than likely wouldn’t move it in the long term either. All it would really do is send a signal that we are willing to exploit anything at any cost, so long as its out of the way and no one really goes there.

It would send the message, that no people don’t need to change their ways and we won’t show restraint in our devouring of the world resources. In my fact like opinion, thats why people have fought so hard to keep out drilling.