Oil prices and Arctic drilling

With oil prices steadily increasing amazingly short sighted politicians continue to call for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to help "solve" the crisis. What next, allow clearcutting in Redwood National Park and development in Yosemite National Park to offset the housing problem in California? Oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is not a solution to tight oil supplies, but maybe a rallying cry for politicians who count on an uninformed electorate. Oil from the ANWR would not be available for 7-10 years, and even then would only lower the price of gas at the pump by 1 cent a gallon, a fraction of what we could accomplish by decreasing demand by implementing real fuel efficiency requirements on vehicles in this country. Unfortunately we have largely ourselves to blame for rapidly increasing oil prices with no end in sight.