"..........ANWR drilling is all about free money for the oil companies."
Actually, it's all about promise of panacea for Alaskans which bring votes for the next election.  
It is a ruse now, and always has been a ruse.  The Refuge (look up the term "refuge" - nothing in there about $$$ for profit)  has never had enough to make the U.S. energy independent, and never will.  It's all darkly laughable now, with a nationwide oil glut, while exporting oil.  Distribution and corporate supply/price manipulation will drive the cost of your gas at the pump.  If you think we've got a glut now, wait until we really start the flow of Canadian oil sands crude to Texas.  
Renewables are gaining ground day by day, and will make fossil fuel energy obsolete by the time your grandchildren enter the job market.