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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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4. Addiction to Oil
Breaking the Addiction
We are obviously already very addicted to oil. This can be easily spotted when the topic of the day is "Did you see those gas prices?!"
Like Medlock said if we make a smooth transition from oil to a new resource, everything will be fine. We Americans need to slowly ween ourselves off of our addiction, just as smokers do with all those patches and pieces of gum.
What is going to make the difference in offshore drilling is all in how we approach it. We can in no way approach it as the only solution. We need to approach it as something that will get us by while we slowly become less dependent on oil.
No one ever said that it was going to be easy to become independent from oil. Actually, it is bound to be quite difficult, but we are going to have to find the determination to do it. It will have to be done one day, so why not go for it now?
- kirbi
January 25, 2009 12:57PM
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