The reason there's an oil problem in the U.S.
Is pretty much the same reason there's a coffee shortage in Venezuela. A bunch of idiots trying to distort and squash economic activity to feed their own silly fantasies.
ANWR is about politics for the Left, period. I have yet to see anyone explain why ten billion barrels of oil is going to be any less helpful in reducing our imports if we drill for it, than if we leave it sitting in the ground forever.