It's about time. Can't wait to hear the enviros howl.

Personally, I want to save ANWR for later, just in case there's a serious oil crisis in the future.

When people see gas prices at over $3:00 they will stop listening to the eco-freaks rediclous malarkey and will stop sending in those stupid post cards the SIERRA CLUB and GREENPEACE enclose in their stop junk mail and save all that money they would ordenarely send to the eco-freaks to pay their utility bills

Ace -

I believe that the reason that this has never been attached to a budget bill before is that it always needed a majority to pass in the Senate, and this is the first time they have had that majority. With the 3 additional Republican Senators elected in 2004, we finally have the majority we need.

How 'bout attaching judges?

"Industry's best estimate is that ANWR could produce about 1 million barrels of oil per day at its peak. That's a 1.25 percent increase in global production. "

"Nor would opening ANWR protect us from the OPEC cartel. Even if every drop of oil we consumed came from Alaska, a cutback in OPEC production would raise Alaskan crude prices just as high as it would raise Saudi crude prices. "

http://www.cato.org/new/04-02/04-17-02r.html

X: every barrel of oil we don't buy from the Middle East is less money in the hands of terror-friendly states.

"Industry's best estimate is that ANWR could produce about 1 million barrels of oil per day at its peak. That's a 1.25 percent increase in global production. "

Of course, we don't really care what the global production level is - we're interested in the domestic consumption, which is around 20 million barrels a day. So the ANWR drilling will give us 5% of our oil.

Suppose we were to say...forcibly make CA seccede?

c'mon people.. you really think this will lower gas prices? the oil co.s just recorded record profits last quarter from all the hurricane business. they'll always find an excuse to raise up prices, no matter what. this will just add a few more dollars to their wallets, not ours.