Offshore Drilling in the U.S.
I stand for no offshore drilling.
In the United States, offshore drilling on the coasts has been a huge debate for a while now. In 2008 it became very popular in the presidential election. It has also been brought up in both environmental issues and United States energy independence.
I think we should not drill offshore. My reasoning for this is because there are many alternate renewable energy sources in the U.S. that we need to explore. We shouldn’t be focusing our efforts on offshore drilling; we should be focusing on these renewable energy resources such as wind power, geothermal, hydropower, or solar energy.
Oil is not a renewable resource. We use it for many things. One major thing we use it for is gas. We are running out of gas and are on peak oil right now. Peak oil is when we are scraping the last bits of the oil. Imagine, you’re pouring milk and it’s that last bit, you want to use all of it and get that last drop of milk. This is what peak oil is. We are scraping our Earth to get every last bit of oil. When we run out of oil, gas prices will soar through the roof, the end of globalization, the world would go into widespread anarchy, and also, there would be endless exploration of previous drilling sites. Essentially, if we run out of oil, the world will go into complete madness.
We need to focus on other renewable resources that can be reproduced. Fifty years ago, computers were very big and took up a ton of space. They could barely do anything. Computers today can fit in the smallest places and are very fast. To put this in perspective, if you focused as much time on renewable resources as we focused on computers, we could figure out a way to make it a major resource used and make it much simpler.
http://www.farallones.org/e_newsletter/2006-03/Offshoredrillingplan.htm
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