Oil Drilling In America

When you think of oil rigs, do you think of animals slowly dying under a film of oil? Most people don't but with the different spills occurring in the past twenty years they should. Though there are many years of oil left under the ocean floor, it is not worth all the damage done in the process to obtain it. Drilling off shore jeopardizes our ocean's ecosystem's well being; thus, permanently damaging the fisherman's market and increasing the unemployment rate for the lower class. It would take tens of billions of dollars plus multiple years to drill an amount of oil that would make America no longer dependent on foreign oil. In that time we could create an alternative energy and regain our leading economy that was robbed from us while we become…show more content…
This,without a doubt, is something that we will need at some point in the future seeing as we have a limited supply of oil. Some people who support offshore drilling seem to believe that we can drill our way to some kind of energy independence. This is just a dark fantasy; it has been established that we have a limited amount of oil in our earth even if it will last us tens of hundreds of years more. A time will come where we will be forced to find other power sources for our vehicles. And if we want to replace China as top economy once more, this would be a great way to start. Think of it like this: you and your family live off a fruit tree in your yard. You pick from the tree every day and know in time it will run out. Do you continue to pick from that same tree or do you decide to be proactive and purchase a new one? Although living off the oil, like your family living off of that lone fruit tree, can sustain its consumers for a substantial amount of time, finding an alternative source could possibly sustain for thousands of years, and then…show more content…
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