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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Drilling Helps Big Oil, Not Hardworking Americans
- From Sierra Club
By Sierra Club - Explore, Enjoy and Protect the Planet
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Excuse Me?
Last time I checked the existing wells provided lots of hard working Ameicans with jobs. Starting with the engineers that design the wells and the construction workers that build them and continuing through the sailors that move them into place and the workers that operate and maintain them.
What help hard working Americans is doing nothing. Yes we need to develop alternatives but in the interim we need to do what we can with the resources at hand. It does no good to tell a drowning man you're building a boat to save him while refusing to toss him the lifesaver at the end of the dock.
- Aegiltheugly
September 23, 2008 1:50PM
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"BIG OIL" Benefits More Than People Realize
Not only does "Big Oil" provide jobs for hard working Americans, but it also does help "Big Oil." However, "Big Oil" does not just benefit "Big Oil." "Big Oil" must benefit itself because we have an economic system based on capitalism, and capitalism is all about profit. If they have put the money into the oil business, then they should be in the right when getting money out of it.
Everyone is just so wrapped up in how much big oil businesses benefit, but it is probably simply because people wish that they would be able to benefit from it as well. However, they fail to recognize that they do indeed benefit from the success of big oil companies. We rely on oil to fill our cars, keep us safe, and keep us going. When oil companies have success, our gas prices go down, and it is able to make our day a little brighter because we didn't have to spend all of our paycheck on buying gas.
So really, "Big Oil" benefits everyone in our nation in some form or fashion.
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February 11, 2009 6:07PM
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