According to experts, any drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would be of no immediate benefit to easing the current oil prices. Oil recently went beyond $130.00 a barrel for the first time in history.

Congress has fought long and hard for many years as to whether or not oil companies should be permitted to access to Alaska’s 1 1/2 million acres of coastal plain. The area is a habitat for Caribou, Seabirds and Polar Bears as well. Congress recently called oil executives more »

With gasoline now costing $4.00 a gallon and up President Bush has seized the moment to ask Congress to vote to allow drilling both in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on the lands just off the United States. The incentive to vote to lift a ban that has been in place for nearly two decades is simple enough on the surface: simply combat the high cost of oil we import from around the world by increasing production on more »