Our lives revolve around oil. Oil brings food to our stores, comprises the fibers in our carpets and makes the plastic in our DVDs. With demand so high it’s no wonder attention has turned to supply, with some advocating the U.S. lift the ban against drilling for oil off its coasts. Is offshore oil drilling a golden opportunity, or would it only create a tidal wave of disaster?
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3. Environmental Considerations
- From Kenneth B Medlock III
By Kenneth B. Medlock III - Fellow in Energy Studies
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Why not Off-shore Wind Farms?
If we cut our dependency on oil in other areas, there would be no need to either drill for it or kill for it. Why not wave generators?
Why not focus efforts on running cars on... rice? or (kill me now)... crazy thought... hemp?
Why is there so much focus placed on oil? OIL! A great book, but a dirty energy source. I like my fossil fuels, honestly I do. Just as much, if not more, as I like my squishy soft toilet paper and my flushing toilet.
But oil is not the answer. It's a horrible choking cloud of life-destroying sickness. It's a poison! (That I fully intend on loving, but that needs to be controlled and curbed.)
- SocialistBetty
December 25, 2008 12:28AM
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Just drill off-shore...
It's all fine and dandy to focus on alternative resources, but meanwhile why not drill off-shore on our way to becoming less dependent on foreign oil?
We are going to have to be dependent on somebody's oil in the time it will take us to convert to a alternative method, so why depend on foreign oil from the middle east? Why not depend on our own oil, and give our country more of a say in the high prices of oil-based products?
If we would just drill off-shore, we could spend our time and effort into discovering new and more renewable resources that we could be dependent upon. More U.S jobs for U.S. citizens could be provided if we would just drill off-shore. Our country's unemployment rate could drop dramatically if we would just drill off-shore. We could spend less time worrying about whether we could go places in our much loved gas guzzling cars if we would just drill off-shore.
So why not be dependent on OUR oil instead of FOREIGN oil for the decade or so it will take for us to switch to a more renewable resource?
- kirbi
January 25, 2009 12:38PM
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