Actually, it's a great idea. Relieve dependence on foreign oil, increase exportation... Even create more jobs, if you want to look at it that way. Lower fuel prices. It's about time they started drilling in Alaska.

Did you know that when the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was established and set up (by Executive Order, mind you, NOT an act of Congress), there were plots specifically set aside for oil drilling? Sections of the Refuge were specifically mapped out to be drilled for oil in. Not only that, but studies have shown that oil rigs actually increase the wildlife in the area, if they affect it at all. I swear, it's ridiculous, it seems like some people think we're just gonna dig a trench and let the oil flow down the continent like a river.