hahahahahahahahahahaha!
lollollol
you jumped the gun and got drilling on your mind huh?
well, drilling on our own soil is being done already....
with several million acres leased but untouched....by the leasees....keeping the oil on this soil OFF of the market...and preventing others that may really want to drill on it, from doing such....
but even if the entire continental shelf were available to drill on and the oil companies actually decided to drill for it, the oil goes on the global market about 10 years from now and will make a 2 cent's a gallon reduction in the price of it, is the economists and speculator;s estimates....
we only have 3% of the world's oil supply to drill, tapped and untapped....it won't make much of a difference and it certainly will not make a difference now or even 5 years from now.....
And foreigners can get the leases to drill our oil, the way it is set up....if anwr is opened... it will not even be a usa company that gets the lease but a british company, BP, who is the one drilling on the northern slope right now, in Alaska....and BP is an atrocious company with no regard to usa law or the American people, which they have proven with their deplorable record....
If there truely were a reasonably priced method to get the shale oil, without spoiling our drinking waters underground....this might help since there is a ton of it...but this is yet to be seen...
Alternatives, is where we should spend our money and focus, along with the continuation of drilling oil on our own land.