Refineries are running at capacity. Any oil sucked out of the ground will not be available until 2025.

How long do you think it will be until the oil rigs are built? Will it come in time to bring gas prices down in the NEAR future or the DISTANT future?

The real issues are oil dependency, our habits with regard to oil, no urgency to develop alternative sources.

Environmental groups are against this drilling. You look at a part of the Alaskan wilderness as wasteland but it is probably part of an ecosystem wherein the animals there do not view it as a wasteland.