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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Should the U.S. Allow Offshore Oil Drilling?
Not too many real people buy into this
Interesting how the zealots have identified oil as the one commodity in existance that would not go down in price if there was more of it. Great idea on their part but it will fail because people are just smarter than that.
- aninformedcitizen September 15, 2008 6:53AM
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