The price of gas has always been too cheap in the US which has resulted in encouraging excess and poor urban planning among other things. The cost of gas is going to stay high and trend much higher from here on out. No amount of new finds will change this dynamic as long as China, India and the developing world begin modernizing and using more and more fuel. We need a plan that addresses our absurd notions of urban planning and sprawl. We need to address the lack of public transportation, our abysmal rail systems, our non-existent mass transit systems out West and our mentality across the board. We need to do a lot of things but drilling in ANWR is not one of them. Neither is drilling off our coast in California.