] The U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved a Republican plan
] to allow drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife
] Refuge (ANWR).
]
]
] The drilling measure, attached to the Senate's version of
] a federal government budget resolution, still faces
] opposition from Democrats and several legislative hurdles
] before it could become law.

[ Given that oil prices are at a record high right now, I figured this would get thru easily, but the vote was 51/49 as it happened. I'm still not convinced that drilling ANWR is all that useful. Yeah, there's about 2/3 of a years worth of easy oil up there, but we won't see that for a decade, and there are other ways to deal with our oil problems. We'll see. -k]