Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline.

In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.

Government experts have estimated that ANWR reserves would only provide enough oil for six months of U.S. oil consumption. In addition, the oil industry itself has estimated that it would take 10 years to bring this oil to the market.

All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs.

You and I need to inform the public of the peaking of oil and the energy crisis that is coming in the future - renewable energy is our way out.

We know we want to support our troops. We want to make sure that they have all the equipment they need.