That's right, it's politics. The "manmade glowball warmink"; the "peak-oil" bullsht; the concern-trolling about the "environment", "emissions" and "CO2 as a toxin" -- politics all, not science.
Now, I have to wonder why the number one source by which the United States of America became the global economic and industrial power that it is, with a standard of living that far surpasses that of any other, is slowly being rendered an "unaffordable", "dirty", luxury, the seeking and using of which is causing global decline; an "addiction". Don't you?
Just so you know, we also take the Constitution very seriously around here, in our conservative thinking, so, neither Congress nor the president, nor his merry band of thugs, nor the UN has been granted permission by that aforementioned document to meddle, control or thwart efforts to harvest our natural resources. They've arrogated that unto themselves and this will be stopped.
That's oil and gas and coal. That's how wealth is created, not by taxes, but by reaping our natural resources and using them to create something of greater value.
Lastly, the area in ANWR that is of such concern is a deserted wasteland, not the wildland utopia the "news" agencies like to show the public. Any environmental misfortune that may occur as a result of our drilling there will be rectified, just as it is everywhere else. Nothing is without risk, but when whatever perceived slight-to-nonexistant risk is held higher than a tangible benefit, as drilling on land is, that's an "ideal" not even worth pursuing.