To Drill or Not to Drill

To Drill or Not to Drill? That Is the Question

Recently drilling has started becoming a large topic for Democrats and Republicans to debate about because it pollutes the environment and is large source of employment for our nation. I think it would be advantageous for our country if we stopped drilling and created new innovations for clean energy sources. The oil companies have been fighting for years to keep us dependent on oil. In the mid 1990s General Motors created the EV1. It was the first electric car, and it was eventually recalled because the oil companies paid General Motors to. The people who owned the cars loved them, but because you could only lease them General Motors would not let anyone buy their car. Instead they took the cars to a junk yard and were crushed. It never made sense to me why the oil companies were against new sources of energy because they should be in the forefront of that technology. If I was them my company would be inventing better solar panels to create solar panel power plants. I could also create a solar panel installation construction company. [In the newspaper article “Con: Moratorium on offshore drilling stifles economic growth, increases our dependency on foreign oil.” It says our economic growth is being stifled, but I think not investing in clean energy is stifling us because we could be doing the work in our country instead of buying oil from the Middle East. [While fishermen in the Gulf shake fists at BP as the oil spill puts their livelihoods at stake, Weise worries about the livelihoods of the men and women affected by the offshore moratorium. Webb worries more specifically for the young families of his compatriots on the Seahawk rig. “I’m worried about my hands on the rigs, the young guys that are just starting out with their families,” he said.]” (Velasquez, 2010, paragraph 5). Those jobs they are talking about being taken away from the people working on the oil rigs would be replaced with jobs in our...