Goodbye ANWR. Hello joint U.S. and Russia arctic drilling and increased global warming.

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1. Maybe.

Oh I have no doubt they want to, but drilling in extreme conditions is an expensive proposition, and the price of oil has to justify it.

We are not the only country in the world and even if our new overlords have their collective heads up their asses on this subject, the market may take away their incentives with more renewables and therefore less demand (and how ironic is that?). Natural gas, as bad as it is, has already killed off the coal market; those jobs aren't coming back no matter what der trumpenfuhrer does.

Best case is oil companies get new leases but don't use them (new assets on their books w/o the expense of actually providing a product).