Even though oil is a dreary topic, it is still the engine that drives economies, and affects everything involved in people making a living. There's no excuse for our present dependence on foreign oil when we have huge reserves in Alaska just sitting there. I am totally in favor of ANWR drilling. But even though I'm a conservative on most things (you will notice that my user page says nearly always), I also don't totally trust the oil industry. To their credit, they did bring the price of gasoline down substantially throughout the 1980s, when the Reagan administration deregulated them. But since then, they've jacked up the price whenever there was the least excuse to, and they seem to do it as quickly and as often as they can.
