Is Nancy Pelosi saving the planet or destroying it?

Charles Krauthammer has a good column here where he deconstructs Nancy Pelosi's ridiculous statement that she isn't allowing a vote on off-shore oil drilling because she is "trying to save the planet". For just a flavor of the column, here Krauthammer discusses the negative impact of biofuels (which the Democrats do seem to like) vis-a-vis the alternative of drilling in ANWR:

"Here in the U.S., one out of every three ears of corn is stuffed into a gas tank (by way of ethanol), causing not just food shortages abroad and high prices at home, but intensive increases in farming with all of the attendant environmental problems (soil erosion, insecticide pollution, water consumption, etc.).

This to prevent drilling on an area in the Arctic one-sixth the size of Dulles Airport that leaves untouched a refuge one-third the size of Britain."

It really is obscene that Pelosi won't allow a vote on domestic oil production, but I guess her political power is more important to her than easing the pain at the pump for consumers.