So says George Will in his column today. Actually, I think he's a bit wrong. I fail to see the "in drag" part--environmentalism is flat out collectivism. An excerpt from Will's column:

Few opponents of energy development in what they call "pristine" ANWR have visited it. Those who have and who think it is "pristine" must have visited during the 56 days a year when it is without sunlight. They missed the roads, stores, houses, military installations, airstrip and school. They did not miss seeing the trees in area 1002. There are no trees.

Ice roads and helicopter pads, which will melt each spring, will minimize man's footprint, which will be on a 2,000-acre plot about one-fifth the size of Dulles Airport. Nevertheless, opponents say the environmental cost is too high for what the ineffable John Kerry calls "a few drops of oil." Some drops. The estimated 10.4 billion barrels of recoverable oil -- such estimates frequently underestimate actual yields -- could supply all the oil needs of Kerry's Massachusetts for 75 years.

Two thousand acres is roughly one-fourteenth the size of my college's campus and a postage stamp size parcel in the vastness of ANWR. Supposing that enviros are correct that drilling would trash the 2,000 acres, this seems like a minor cost relative to the millions of barrels of oil.