Drilling in Alaska

I saw the real ANWAR of Alaska on television this morning on the 700 club. Everyone is shown pictures of beautiful flowers, mountains, herds of wild animals and there is really absolutely none of that where they want to drill. In fact it looks like waste land, and at the right angle could be mistaken for the Planet Mars it is so desolate. I heard also that due to the warm oil pipeline going through carabao country that they are multiplying like crazy because they love the heat from it and love being near it. Can this be bad? There are no herds of animals on the few thousand acres they wish to drill on and there is enough oil there to make us independent and save the United States billions of dollars a day. Why give that money to other countries when we have enough oil in our own country for ourselves and to sell to others? Anybody standing in the way of the United States having plenty of oil for ourselves has a few marbles missing.