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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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1. Resource Potential and Market Impact
Option C
Honestly, if you all really think about it, the effects of BOTH drilling offshore and the alternative -whatever that may be- will take about a decade or so in order to see more of a change. Everyone is so caught up in "How are we going to fix it, NOW!?" To be quite serious, I am not sure that there is a solution that would fix our problem now. However, we do have to start somewhere, and that somewhere should be with offshore drilling (option A) AND finding alternative resources (option B). This would allow most everyone to be happy, and it would create almost two times the jobs that just doing one alone would.
- kirbi
February 11, 2009 4:52PM
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