The Democrats have a standardized talking point against any domestic drilling (in ANWR, the Midwest oil shales and off-shore), settling on the comeback: ''It won't help us today.'' Energy-savvy Republicans too often respond ''If Clinton hadn't vetoed ANWR, that oil field would have been producing three years ago.''....If the voters see environmentalists, tree-huggers, and their Democratic political minions as causing $4 or $5 dollar a gallon gasoline, along with the rise in consumer prices across the board because of the increase of the cost of oil used as an ingredient in many products, they will blame the Democrats.

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