Riiiight, Doug. And I'm the Queen of California.

The oil in Alaska they want to drill for won't be a) accessible for about 10 years, and b) there isn't that much up there to being with. About 3 months worth (if we used only that oil for a span of time.)

The issue behind drilling in Alaska is not that they think they'll get much oil -- it's a test case for allowing private companies access to resources on nationally protected and nationally owned land.

In other words, private companies selling to the public what already belongs to the public, on land that the public has determined has more important resources than finite ones -- i.e. beauty and biological diversity.

And I got a bridge in San Francisco I can sell you for cheap :)