"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."

Crisis, Drilling, Energy, Oil

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"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."

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Politics

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

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Nation

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Society

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